THERE was a near capacity field on show at the Gloucester Golf Course on Saturday 25 January. The event was sponsored by Graeme Marsh and Dave Boehman of D&B Plumbing The event, a Four Ball Better Ball Stableford, was played…
PORT Stephens’ elite athletes have produced encouraging performances at the recent NSW Country Athletics Championships in Maitland. Corlette express Summah Harrison led the gold medal rush for the 21-strong contingent, winning the 100m sprint final in the Women’s Under 20s…
WELCOME back to all our lady golfers for another year of great fun, great friends and great golf at Hawks Nest. We hope this year will not be as rain soaked as last year, and that our weekly competitions on…
USMAN Khawaja will be ready to pull the pin on his own Test career if he ever feels that’s what Australia needs, but he has no active retirement plans as he prepares to face Sri Lanka. The 38-year-old’s future received…
SATURDAY 25th January, Individual Stableford, Skins Qualifiers 1st Round & 2BBB FIELD | 33 members & 2 visitors. DIVISION 1 (
FORMER Dungog junior cricket player Lachie Berry has scored his maiden century playing for Maitland 13s at the LJ Hooker Ballina Stage 3 Carnival. Maitland started the Ballina carnival with a game against the Brisbane Bears. Skipper Leo Field lost…
DEAR News Of The Area, AFTER three attempts to get my 81-year-old husband into hospital, a specialist doctor advised I phone for an ambulance again this morning and have him admitted, where he would be able to give him the…
Dear News of the Area, I RESPOND to the letter by Wayne Duesbury, “More misrepresentation of facts” (NOTA 17/1/2025), in which he accuses me of “a glaring misrepresentation” and “resorting to devious tactics to support an argument” . I had…
DEAR News Of The Area, I naively went to a bank at the Park Beach Plaza to purchase some US dollars for tips for a planned cruise in December. I was expecting to front up to the cashier, put in…
DEAR News Of The Area, REGARDING a letter from Con Van Darrel of Sawtell (Friday 17/1/25), “The privilege of being Aussie”, this little letter should be published in very large print on the front page of your paper if you…