FED up farmers and families facing poor regional, rural and remote mobile services are being encouraged to “keep complaining”. The latest report from the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) revealed an increase in complaints in NSW, with almost a quarter coming from regional areas. A total of 4,285 complaints were made by people in NSW, up […]
PORT Macquarie-Hastings Council will strengthen the ageing Kindee Bridge, restoring it to a 10-tonne load limit and extending its operational life by an estimated 10 to 20 years. Community members received the update at a recent meeting attended by Member for Oxley Michael Kemp, Federal Member for Lyne Alison Penfold, Mayor of Port Macquarie-Hastings Council […]
CWA members at the Mid North Coast Group Land Cookery competition: (l-r) Joy Pengilly, Rhonda Merchant, Lexie Burton, Denise Hawdon, Barbara Reichert and judge Ellice Schrader. Photo: Pauline Cain.
LAND Cookery, a Country Women’s Association competition, is celebrating its 75th year. Ahead of the CWA state conference in Forster in May, the Wauchope branch hosted the Mid North Coast Group’s Land Cookery and Friendship Day at Wauchope RSL Club on Thursday 19 February. It was attended by 52 members from 11 branches, spanning Gloucester […]
Warren Mason performing at Tin Camp Studio at Lightning Ridge. Photo Outback Outloud Rainy King.
ARTS Mid North Coast (AMNC) has welcomed the NSW Government’s launch of “Heartland: A Plan for Regional NSW Arts, Culture and Creative Industries 2026–2035”, backed by a $5.2 million investment aimed at strengthening arts, culture and creative industries across regional NSW. AMNC is the Regional Arts Development Organisation (RADO) and peak body for arts and […]
Bruce de Graaf making his 700th donation. Bruce de Graaf and Port Macquarie MP Rob Dwyer. DUNBOGAN’S Bruce de Graaf celebrated his 700th donation at Lifeblood Port Macquarie on Friday, 20 February. He now holds the record for the most blood/plasma donations in the Port Macquarie region and is one of the top ten donors […]
Celebrating Thinking Day at Bruce Porter Reserve.
Celebrating Thinking Day at Bruce Porter Reserve. Girl Guides Alexia Herr, Danielle Steele and Ashley Baxter. BRUCE Porter Reserve in Laurieton sprung to life on Sunday 22 February as Girl Guides from Port Macquarie, Forster, Wauchope and Camden Haven came together to celebrate the centenary of Thinking Day. Joined by family members and volunteers, the […]
Rotarian John Saunders, CHHS student Cooper Boese, CHHS student Gemma Fowler, Rotarian Jennifer Peters, CHHS Head of Mathematics James Langley and CHHS student Jazz Jones. Photo: Rotary.
THE Rotary Club of Laurieton has reaffirmed its long-standing commitment to local youth, continuing more than a decade of support for the Camden Haven High School (CHHS) Robotics Team. The partnership began in 2014 under the presidency of John Saunders, when a $4,000 grant funded the introduction of robotics at the school. What started as […]
Rotarian and global volunteer Brittani Michelle.
THE first International Women’s Day (IWD) was held in Europe on 8 March 1911 as a way of uniting globally to push for suffrage and workers’ rights for women. The movement spread and in 1928 it was celebrated for the first time in Australia, with calls for equal pay, an eight-hour working day for shop […]
Materials stored in the disabled parking space. The new kerbed area adjoining the speed hump. LAKEWOOD residents expressed fury this week as an upgrade was carried out at the direct-to-boot car spaces outside Woolworths in the shopping complex on Botanic Drive. An extension of a kerbed area to join it up to a speed hump […]
