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Raymond Terrace Dawn Service honours the fallen

Photographer Cory Small beautifully captured the atmosphere of the solemn service. Photographer Cory Small beautifully captured the atmosphere of the solemn service. Photographer Cory Small beautifully captured the atmosphere of the solemn service. Photographer Cory Small beautifully captured the atmosphere of the solemn service. Photographer Cory Small beautifully captured the atmosphere of the solemn service. […]

Community

Calls grow for long-term transport solution as Tomaree shuttle trial deemed a success

A SHUTTLE bus trial in the Tomaree Headland precinct has sparked renewed calls for a broader, long-term transport strategy across Shoal Bay and Fingal Bay, as pressure from tourism and development continues to mount. At its meeting on 24 March, Port Stephens Council resolved to review the findings of the Tomaree Headland shuttle bus trial […]

Community, School

Would you step into the water with sharks at age six? These kids did

The awe of meeting a ray up close and personal, as experienced by one of the students from Medowie Christian School. Photo: supplied. Ocean lessons come alive for Medowie Year 1 students on a recent excursion to Irukandji Shark and Ray Encounters. Photo: supplied. YOUNG learners from Medowie Christian School have taken their ocean studies […]

Community

Funding for animal rehoming organisations in the Hunter

FIVE animal rehoming organisations across the Hunter are sharing in more than $150,000 in funding, delivered as part of the first round of the NSW Government’s $6 million Companion Animal Welfare and Rehoming Grants program. This funding will support projects like the construction of a new cattery, and subsidising desexing, microchipping and vaccination. Successful grant […]

Community

Solemn scenes at Medowie Dawn Service

The march to the Dawn Service. Photos: Amanda Green. Medowie RSL sub-Branch President Bernie Edmonds. The Catafalque Party. Medowie Public School captain Arthur Christie with Squadron Leader James Ward Chaplin. Ilsa Harvey, a 101-year-old war widow, lays a wreath. Liam Bennett and Marley Douglass from Irrawang High Drum Corps. Catherine McAuley Catholic College representatives. Wirreanda […]

Port Stephens

Two rescued after vessel stranded on rocks

TWO men have been rescued following a multi-agency operation at Fingal Island. About 7.30pm on Wednesday 22 April, emergency services were called to Fingal Island following a Mayday call by a sailing crew. Port Stephens Water Police and Marine Rescue NSW crews responded to the area and located a 10-metre sailing vessel stranded on submerged […]

Government

Housing questioned answered in livestreamed Port Stephens Council event

THE ongoing housing crisis across the region was discussed in a livestreamed event hosted by Port Stephens Council on Wednesday, 22 April. Utilising a Facebook Live stream, Mayor Leah Anderson was joined by Council staff Zoe Pattison, Ryan Falkenmire and Brock Lamont in an hour-long conversation, attempting to answer the community’s questions about housing supply […]

Local News

Stinker’s Fishin’: Here they come!

IT is that time of year for the mature mullet to leave the peacefulness of the NSW estuary systems and swim out into the open ocean with all its dangers – including fishermen. Anytime now, unless it has already happened, huge schools of sea mullet will pour out of the Swansea Channel and the Hunter […]

Government

Funding for Tomago’s MG Thermal to commercialise energy storage tech

THE Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has provided $3.25 million to MGA Thermal in Tomago for up to five front-end engineering design studies to help commercialise its thermal energy storage technology and support industrial electrification. MGA Thermal’s technology stores renewable energy as heat, which can then be used on demand for industrial processes, aimed at […]

Community

Encouraging Hunter women and girls to join emergency services

THE NSW Government is encouraging young women and girls in the Hunter to seek opportunities in emergency services through the Girls on Fire program. Girls on Fire received over $180,000 in funding under the government’s Investing in Women grants, to provide teenage girls in regional and remote areas with a hands-on, practical program of what […]