VETERANS are returning to RSL NSW after 40 years of declining membership. In three years, Australia’s largest veteran charity has strategically increased its membership in NSW by 25 percent, predominantly in regional areas. Advertise with News of The Area today.…
OPEN spaces and recreation strategies within the MidCoast Council LGA are still in drafting, but will soon close to public exhibition on Tuesday, 27 June. MidCoast residents may not have been able to attend one of the four recent ‘Drop-In’…
CONFUSION dogs the rules about dogs along Jimmys Beach, one of several local issues addressed at the recent MidCoast Council ‘Community Conversations’ in Hawks Nest Community Hall on Tuesday, 6 June. News Of The Area has conducted an investigation into…
‘COMMUNITY Conversations’ have been held over the last few weeks across our local government area (LGA), giving MidCoast Council the opportunity to share with the community its overall strategic direction. Community members have also been provided the opportunity to raise…
OVER a century of foot and motor traffic appears to be seriously testing the Tea Gardens foreshore, with sinkholes opening up along the Marine Drive footpaths. The Tea Gardens shoreline was once a narrow, sandy beach, the small patch of…
IT was in 2013 when I launched my book, ‘Oysterman’, in the Karuah RSL Club. At the time the Port Stephens oyster industry was struggling to reestablish itself as the premier oyster growing waterway in the state. Advertise with News…
VIGILANT pollution inspections were performed by local kayakers upon the Myall River on Friday, 9 June. “The first and last river clean-up, in 2018, pulled out four trailer-loads of rubbish, around the Bridge and other spots,” Gordon Grainger of the…
OFTEN the most effective ways to get results are those seldom known nor discussed, as it would seem with the MidCoast Council’s ‘Report An Issue’ website function. At several recent community meetings, including the Hawks Nest Tea Gardens Progress Association…
RATES, and the way MidCoast ratepayers get charged, could potentially change, amidst rumblings from the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART). IPART is responsible for regulating rates and increases, and has released a draft report proposing changes to the way…
PERSISTENCE and strong purpose have finally paid, as Hawks Nest’s Dorothy Thompson celebrated the opening of the Mirreen Street footpath outside Peter Sinclair Gardens (PSG) on Thursday, 8 June. A tenacious Kiwi by birth, Dorothy (94) has volunteered at PSG…