SALAMANDER Bay cricketer Ed Williams has reason to smile after a bumper fortnight in the Newcastle District Cricket competition. The talented 20-year-old Stockton and Northern Districts all rounder is celebrating a trophy success with the club’s second grade line-up and a blazing half century to maintain the Seagulls’ winning ways. Williams played a role in […]

PORT Stephens Athletics Centre has unearthed a real find in talented eight-year-old rookie Dre Elias. The budding sprinter was one of two Port Stephens club juniors to smash records at the recent Port Hunter Zone Athletics Championships staged at Mallabula Sports Complex. Competing at his first Zone championships, the dashing Elias claimed a gold trifecta […]

PORT Stephens cricketer Jeff Goninan may have retired from representative cricket but his value to the Stockton and Northern Districts first grade cricket team is immense. The former Nelson Bay junior’s batting skills were the main talking point last Saturday after the Seagulls rolled rivals Wallsend in their top of the table Newcastle District Cricket […]

HAWKS Nest Golf Club (HNGC) has done it again, reclaiming the prestigious Tournament of the Year title at the 2025 NSW Golf Industry Awards for the Hawks Nest Beachside Pro Am. The event first won the award in 2023, backed it up as a finalist in 2024, and has now returned to the top with […]

Port Stephens Netball ambassador Sophie Bradbery was a joint winner of Netball NSW Community Volunteer of the Year Award with Bathurst’s Julia Morrissey. Sophie Bradbery (left) pictured with her mother Jodi Cassar and in-laws Kristy Bradbery and Nathan Bradbery at the awards night. WHEN local netballer Sophie Bradbery lost her brother Nicholas Johnson to suicide […]

EMERGING race walker Audrey Russell has continued her record breaking feats on the athletics track. Audrey, 14, was one of four Raymond Terrace Athletics Centre prospects to smash records last weekend at the annual Port Hunter Zone Athletics Championships at Mallabula Sports Complex. Competing in hot conditions, the talented junior underlined her potential when she […]

NELSON Bay Football Club talisman Shaun Shelley can boast a long list of accolades from his career in the Newcastle Football competition scene. One of his proudest-ever achievements was being named the Bay’s 2025 Club Person of the Year in recognition of his magnificent service both on and off the field. Shelley was a deserved […]

ONE of the Hunter region’s proudest footballing families has been honoured by the Newcastle Football association. Medowie FC stalwarts Matt and Ebony Morris along with their 21-year-old daughter Billie-Ann and sons Tyson and Kayden, are the inaugural recipients of the prestigious Henry Family Award. The award perpetuates the memory of the late Newcastle Football Chief […]

Poppy demonstrates his medal-winning style in the Big Air Wave discipline. Port Stephens border heeler Poppy at the DockDogs National Titles during the Queanbeyan Show. TANILBA Bay dog owner Cassie Danckert vividly remembers the time her then 10-month-old border collie-cross cattle dog Poppy was afraid of the water. Four years on and Poppy has matured […]

AFTER two years of planning, persistence, and plenty of hard work, Fingal’s sporting community is celebrating the opening of four brand-new pickleball courts. The club’s aging tennis courts have been transformed into a vibrant new hub for this fast-growing sport. The project came about when two of the club’s four grass tennis courts reached the […]