EMERGING Raymond Terrace swimmer Sebastian Webster has entered 2024 with an extra spring in his step. The fourteen-year-old Para breaststroke find achieved an important milestone last month when he collected a bronze medal at the NSW Senior State Age Swimming…
TOMAREE High School run machine Lucas Vincent has reached another milestone in his burgeoning cricket career. In a glowing endorsement of his raw potential, the sixteen-year-old NSW Combined High Schools representative finished leading run scorer at the recent NSW Country…
THE Port Stephens Yacht Club (PSYC) participated in the much anticipated Commodores Cup series last week. Two races sailed between Soldiers Point past the Anchorage resort to the mouth of the Tea Gardens river marker named the Wedding Cake Mark…
THE very prestigious King of the Mountain event was hotly contested on Monday January 8th. The Club welcomed 23 players from HNGC and they were joined by 35 BGC members for a combined single Stableford and 2BBB competition. The day…
MEET outstanding eleven-year-old athlete Maalaa McLennan – the toast of Port Stephens Netball Association. The promising goal attack was the name of everyone’s lips last week after gaining selection in the Australian Indigenous Under 13 Schoolgirls team for a tournament…
RUBBING shoulders with world class colleagues on the training field has inspired Port Stephens rugby league dynamo Lilly-Ann White to unprecedented heights. The gifted utility who hails from Tea Gardens has secured a two-year NRLW development contract with the mighty…
WHILE 2023 began with a focus on Coffs Harbour’s foreshore, climate, costs of living and increasing debate on the referendum in a year that sometimes felt as if it had more downs than ups, the ‘Times Gone By’ column stepped…
DEAR News Of The Area, My elderly neighbours, who delight in gardening and supplying others with excess fruit and veggies that they grow, had eighteen of their newly planted hedging plants stolen last week. They had worked so hard to…
DEAR News Of The Area, Warren Tindall cites headlines of the past 40 years as “proofs” of an all-encompassing climate change disaster (NOTA 29/12/23). Without further information I assume he is referring to reports of extreme weather events. If that…
DEAR News Of The Area, IT has been revealed in the media that the City of Coffs Harbour is one of 81 councils (four last year!) across NSW to refuse to conduct Australian citizenship ceremonies and certificates on Australia Day…