Some of Mid North Coast Karate black belts: Sempai Isla Wilkinson, Sempai Jackson Smith, Sempai Troy Phillipson-Nichols, Sempai Anick Beaumont, Sempai Jade Hilton, Sempai Eric Millgate, Sempai Patrick Fisher, Sempai Kellie Eggins, Sempai Phil Vercoe, Sempai Indi Cook, Sempai Isaac Salmon, Sempai Sean Butcher with Instructors Sensei Shaun Budai and Sensei Anissa Hilton. A newspaper […]

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 […]

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 […]

COMMUNITY members from across the Port Macquarie-Hastings region will come together on 8 March to fundraise for research into type 1 diabetes (T1D). The fundraising walk is organised by Breakthrough T1D (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), a leading supporter of global research into the condition. The local event is part of the organisation’s annual […]

NOMINATIONS for the 2026 NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards are now open, with family, friends and work mates urged to help celebrate the enormous positive impact of volunteers across the state. The awards are in their 20th year and are run by The Centre for Volunteering to recognise the outstanding work of volunteers in […]

THE Kendall community has rallied to support an injured peacock, known as Pete, who has become a beloved mascot for the local area. When the news came out this week that Pete had been spotted injured, locals flooded community Facebook pages wanting to help. Like all great icons his origins are shrouded in mystery, with […]