THERE are over 14,000 official pickleball players in Australia according to Pickleball Australia. But it’s thought that as many as 20,000 people across the country are playing the world’s fastest growing sport – including in Gloucester. Pickleball enthusiast Brad Moore,…
IT was a sunny start to the Four Ball Multiplier event last Wednesday, 2 October, for the Gloucester Women Golfers, with the clouds gathering for the second nine holes. To pre-empt any issues at a hole where one or other…
ADJACENT to a pretty reach of the Gloucester River is the Gloucester Caravan Park. Owned by MidCoast Council, its management has been outsourced since 2010. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us.…
THE day’s golf was magic, in the sense that Derek Wand sponsored the Gloucester Golfers’ event on Tuesday 1 October only to have the trophy return home when Anne Wand notched up the top score of the day. At least,…
RESIDENTS from across the Hunter and MidCoast regions flocked to the annual Stroud Brick Throwing and Rolling Pin Competition on Sunday, 6 October. Originally scheduled for July, the iconic event was rescheduled due to the Stroud Showground being waterlogged. The…
DEAR News Of The Area, FROM 25 – 28 September Coffs Harbour hosted touch footy at the stadium; that’s four days. It was very well organised, well attended and as usual, the grounds were presented in a professional, well maintained…
DEAR News Of The Area, TODAY, I had insightful conversations with a small business owner and a financial expert from Sydney about the current state of the economy. The owner of a long-established restaurant in Coffs Harbour mentioned that he…
SENIOR swimmers have been shocked by the increase in the price of admission to Coffs Harbour’s War Memorial Olympic Pool. One couple, aged 87 and 85, returned home after a few weeks away to find the price of their daily…
BUS STOP Films’ Accessible Film Studies Program has completed its first short film, a comedy called Go Your Own Way. Bus Stop Films, the award-winning social enterprise film school and production company, in partnership with TAFE NSW, has been working…
FED up nurses and midwives at Baringa Private Hospital are “anxiously awaiting” news of an interim pay rise, after their union agreed to negotiate with the NSW Government. The Nurses and Midwives Association has accepted an offer of a three…