ELYSIAN Fields, Australia's only electric viola da gamba band, comes to the Royal Hotel, Dungog on Friday, 29 November. The viola da gamba is a seven-string instrument with frets about the same size as the cello. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it for your business. Message us.

PATERSON Public School was a bustling hive of activity last Friday and Saturday, 25 and 26 October, with an outdoor working bee. A great turnout of adults and children came to the school to build a remembrance garden. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it for your business. Message

IN the Dungog Shire, 50 babies are now receiving free, age-appropriate books each month through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, thanks to the efforts of Dungog Early Literacy. The initiative, aimed at fostering a love of reading and strengthening early literacy skills, has captured the community’s heart and the help of 41

GIG in the Gog is on again this Sunday, 27 October, from 12-2pm. Dungog Arts Society’s free, all-ages performing arts event, is open to everyone. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us - (02) 4981 8882. Email us - media@newsofthearea.com.au The “Gig” is

COMMUNITY garden spaces have long been desired by locals in Clarence Town, with a keen group of enthusiastic locals now cultivating the dream. Rather than creating a singular community garden space in isolation, the goal is to create a network of plants, herbs, flowers, natives and fruit trees across various

BY 8am on Saturday morning, the streets around the Bank Hotel Dungog resounded with roars as highly-polished show cars and bikes, hot rods and rat rods, tractors and trucks rolled into town for the annual Dungog Rumble. There was even a vintage forklift and a demo derby car parked among all

DR Aunty Rhonda Radley brought attendees into a state of Ngarrangga or “deep listening” during the fifth “Listening to Indigenous Voices” presentation at The James Theatre in Dungog. This interactive session on Saturday, 12 October, engaged 57 attendees in the spirit of sharing, connection to Country, and truth-telling. Advertise with News of

DESPITE dreary weather, locals eagerly turned out to celebrate the return of the Gresford Community Market after a Covid-enforced hiatus on Saturday, 12 October. “Thanks to the Gresford District Community Group - who’ve brought us the Gresford Gallery, The Arboretum, and the Mural Project - the market was buzzing with

TEXTILE artists and craftspeople are invited to a free Creative Patchwork workshop on Saturday 16 November at Dungog Arts Society. This is an opportunity to meet like-minded people and learn new patchworking methods. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us - (02)

THE Dungog Common Strategic Plan Vision info session was held last Thursday in the CWA Hall. The Dungog Common Land Manager Board oversees the stewardship of the reserve and has focused on an improvement project over the past two years. Advertise with News Of The Area today. It's worth it for your business. Message