RAYMOND Terrace has a proud history as a busy river port, and that heritage is still part of our town’s identity today. The town has grown, and it’s time we worked together on a new plan that reflects our community’s priorities. The Raymond Terrace–Heatherbrae Strategy has been guiding our direction since 2015 to make this […]
Diana Souter, pictured with her husband Ron, is retiring from the SeaSide Singers Community Choir.
DEAR News Of The Area, YES, I am retiring! So it is with some trepidation and regret that I sit down to write this letter. For those who do not know, the SeaSide Singers Community Choir began after I placed a tiny advert in The Examiner newspaper in February 2009. So we started with 50 […]
DEAR Jasminda, MY daughter’s class is holding a fundraiser to raise funds to paint the play equipment. I’ve let the relatives know and now they are getting competitive with their offers. Kylie G. Dear Kylie, Fundraisers used to be done in a clandestine way, much like nanna slipping little Jimmy a cool fifty bucks in […]
DEAR News Of The Area, It seems the newspaper is flogging the dead horse to resurrect another shot at addressing the unacceptable risk of two infamous intersections, Bucketts Way and Medowie Road, as well as roasting Labor politicians. “Funding promises for highway intersections” (NOTA 17 April 2025) informs me of one certainty, the paper knows […]
DEAR News Of The Area, It is curious that in the 6 March NOTA article titled “Port Stephens Council reaffirms stance on offshore wind” that a union representative backed by the Labor Environmental Action Network asserts there was consultation. Justin Page even described it as “absurd” that councillors were unaware of any consultation. Yet I […]
DEAR News of the Area, All wars are tragic, inevitably causing unnecessary death, destruction, chaos and misery, at great financial and social cost. Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter prohibits war, calling for member states to: “refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political […]
DEAR News Of The Area, This is a response to Ian Roberts, Fingal Bay (Letter to the Editor, 19 February). Mr Roberts claims there was “no political mandate” for offshore wind. The record tells a very different story: it was opposition groups, not Labor candidates, who turned offshore wind into a federal election issue. Social […]
THE natural beauty of our beaches is a big part of what makes Port Stephens such a great place to live. We’ve just come off a busy summer where tens of thousands of people spent time on our shores, and it was great to see so many people enjoying our region. However, that much activity […]
