DEAR News Of The Area, I LIVE in Newville and on Sunday afternoon, 4 February, there was a helicopter which flew quite low over my house several times and landed (without turning off the rotors) in the EJ Biffin fields…
SATURDAY’S Stroke and Medal competition at the Macksville Country Club Golf saw Allan Clarke playing off scratch (0) to win the Spoon event, which is for the best gross score on the day. Averaged out over the years he has…
32 Viney Creek Rd, Shearwater Estate, Tea Gardens 3 bedrooms/3 bathrooms/3 garages 9936 sqm of land DRIVING onto the small acreage overlooking the twin coastal towns of Hawks Nest and Tea Gardens, your eyes are drawn to the distant blue…
DEAR News Of The Area, CLAIMS by Meryl Swanson MP that there have been delays by the Newcastle and Port Stephens Game Fish Club Limited (NPSGFC) in providing a set of conditions for presentation to the Hon Chris Bowen MP…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN 2019 the Morrison government, supported by the ALP, legislated stage-three tax cuts, mainly for high income earners, to come into force this year. Meanwhile, post-COVID inflation created a cost-of-living crisis. While the opposition slams…
ON Tuesday 30 January, Fire and Rescue and Rural Fire Service (RFS) crews sprung into action following reports of a structure fire at a mechanics shop in Tea Gardens. Their rapid response helped prevent the blaze from spreading to nearby…
STARTING school is a milestone, especially for one family in Bulahdelah, with twins and a Principal starting this year. St Joseph’s Primary School in Bulahdelah has begun 2024 with an increased population, including Principal Amanda Pomplun’s own twin daughters, Amaya…
CELEBRATING the Singing Bridge’s 50th Anniversary this year requires a retrospective on what it took finally to build ‘Our Bridge’, now the centrepiece of Tea Gardens and Hawks Nest townships. Plenty of documentary evidence suggests that Hawks Nest was little…
DEAR News Of The Area, Recently, a retired engineer with 45 years of experience in power generation indicated the difficulty and likely cost of transitioning to renewables. He used the example of replacing the 2GW generating capacity of the retired…
A REPRESENTATIVE community panel has convened to help shape the future services provided by Hunter Water to the end of the decade, with indicative prices between 2025 and 2030 shared at last week’s forum to inform the panel’s deliberative process.…