Zenith Beach maintained its annual rating of ‘very good’. Photo: Beachwatch.
THE 2025 State of the Beaches Report has revealed the water quality of swimming spots has improved, thanks to a year of average-to-below average rainfall across NSW. Out of the 249 sites across NSW, water quality has improved at 23 swimming sites, while a further 179 kept their high score of ‘good’ to ‘very good’. […]
Week 1 PBL winners.
THE Term 4 Week 1 winners of Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) awards have been revealed. Week 1 winners: Irrawang PS: Mason has been nominated for his outstanding teamwork, encouragement and respect to everyone at a Bridge Building Competition. Mason represented Irrrawang with pride and demonstrated that he is a safe, responsible learner who shows […]
St Columba’s has already benefited from the beautiful Karuah parklets along Tarean Road. Photo: Thomas O’Keef.) The fenced-in area out the back of St Columba’s will be home to the new play equipment. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. A concept design for the FourPark play equipment. Supplied: T. Sheuer. FAMILIES in Karuah may soon have another place […]
The Rainbow Lorikeet, Noisy Miner, and Australian Magpie topped the charts in 2024.
THE 2025 Aussie Bird Count, one of Australia’s largest citizen science events, began on Monday. This national celebration of our unique and diverse birdlife will run to Sunday, 26 October 2025. BirdLife Australia invites people of all ages to take just 20 minutes out of their day to spot, identify, and count the birds around […]
Dwayne Bannon-Harrison, Chair of the NSW Aboriginal Tourism Operators Council.
Dwayne Bannon-Harrison, Chair of the NSW Aboriginal Tourism Operators Council. A smoking ceremony welcomed guests to the roundtable. A panel discussion featuring Phil Lockyer, Sharon Winsor and Andrew Smith. Speed networking at the event. REPRESENTATIVES from the Aboriginal business and cultural tourism sectors came together at the Murrook Culture Centre in Williamtown for the eighth […]
Raymond Terrace Lions Club’s working committee helped raise a record-equalling $10,000 for the Australian Lions Childhood Cancer Research Foundation.
RAYMOND Terrace Lions Club has raised a record-equalling $10,000 for the Australian Lions Childhood Cancer Research Foundation through its fourth annual Biggest High Tea. This strongly supported event is held each year in St John’s Anglican Church and continues to raise public awareness of the plight of young children diagnosed with cancer. Lions Club membership […]
A previous meet of the Triumph Sports Owners car clubs.
FRIDAY 17 October marks the start of a weeklong national meeting for the Triumph Sports Owners car clubs in the Port Stephens area. The Anchorage at Corlette will house 120 registrants from all over Australia for the meet. “Some of their number will have driven from as far away as Perth and Adelaide,” said member […]
Penny Dakin, Scott Howie, Ros Abercrombie, Andrew Barker, Danielle Fusco and Imogen Castledine.
REGIONAL Arts Australia is launching a “transformative” new funding initiative with $2.4 million dollars in support from Minderoo Foundation. The program offers multi-year grants of $160,000 to support independent artists living and working in regional communities across Australia. “Practice in Community” will deliver two funding rounds for independent artists working in Community Arts and Cultural […]
Vicki Haines with her cross-world motorbike sidekick, helmet-wearing long-term NBVC members Sue McMahon and Gwen Harris and frocked and feathered members Jan Bell and Pat Gibson.
NELSON Bay VIEW Club hosted a spring luncheon on Friday 26 September in support of the Smith Family’s Learning for Life program. The initiative brought together the “frocked and feathered” from within the community, all focused on giving disadvantaged students the resources they need to succeed in school. Guest speaker and “local hero”, Vicki Haines, […]
A POPULATION of koalas continues to live around Grahamstown Dam, according to a drone-based survey undertaken by Hunter Water and the University of Newcastle. Using drones fitted with thermal cameras and spotlight technology, the project surveyed more than 2,000 hectares across Hunter Water-managed land as part of Australia’s most comprehensive drone fauna survey ever undertaken […]
