DEAR News Of The Area, MARK Twain was a great humourist who saw the irony of ignorance and contradiction within humanity. It is therefore fitting that Tony Judge would quote Twain in his opinion piece, ‘Muddying the water on water…
LAST week in Sydney at the NSW multi class division athletics championships, Lexie Brown, twelve, of Nambucca Heads Public School smashed it home, winning the long jump, 100 and 200 metres and placing in discus and shotput for her division.…
COFFS Harbour and Port Macquarie’s Oztag players are joining forces to take on the best in the country. The new Mid North Coast Mariners teams are set to compete at the Australian Senior Championships, which gets underway on Friday in…
COFFS Harbour and Districts Sporting Car Club has held its latest round of high-octane racing. The club held the last round of the Coffs Mechanical Repairs Series on Sunday, 29 October. A club spokesperson gave a recap of the racing…
COFFS Harbour’s best junior cricketers have begun their representative seasons in the opening round matches of the North Coast Cricket Council’s annual Inter-District competition. Coffs Harbour District Cricket Association’s Under 14s started their rep season with a thumping 195-run win…
NOT having a care in the world seems to have been the secret behind Kristy Hickey’s win in The Golf Centre’s Coffs Coast Ladies Classic played at the Coffs Harbour Golf Club over the weekend. As a home-club member, Hickey’s…
NANA Glen Sport, Recreation and Equestrian Centre will welcome up to 150 riders thanks to the successful application by Coffs Harbour Pony Club (CHPC) to host the NSW Pony Club State One Day Event and Combined Training Championships. CHPC is…
SIXTEEN players representing clubs from Bathurst, Urunga, Forster, Coutts Crossing, Sawtell, Port Macquarie, Tweed Heads and Taree battled it out recently in what competitors described as “a thrilling showcase of skill and determination” at the Sawtell Croquet Club. Players coped…
TUESDAY 24 October. Our second last Shootout Qualifier golf game for the year was played at Safety Beach on Tuesday 24 October by 35 ladies. Once again conditions were compromised by a strong wind, however the ladies were well up…
IT was a five-foot putt on the fourth playoff hole that finally earned Kempsey’s Andrew Kirkman the ANZ North Coast Amateur Open. Kirkman and Lindsay Ross from Emerald Lakes were locked in a tense sudden death playoff after both finished…