WHEN people think of Bulahdelah, they imagine industries such as beef, dairy cattle and timber production as well as the natural wonders our area has to offer. Being outside the main wine producing areas of the Hunter, it comes as a surprise to people that many boutique wine producers exist

ABORIGINAL community members are invited to nominate for MidCoast Council’s first Aboriginal reference group. The reference group is the first action to be delivered from the recently adopted MidCoast Aboriginal Action Plan. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us - (02)

OPPORTUNITIES for learning and serving the community abound at the Tea Gardens Hawks Nest Surf Life Saving Club, which reopened its Bar and Club doors over the Father’s Day weekend. Its hardy volunteers rested over August, both were reopened to assist new registrations, with the fleet of Inflatable Rescue Boats

DRIVERS of the local Free Clinic Bus get to break in a new steed as they welcomed the new vehicle at Hawks Nest Golf Club on Sunday, 27 August. Delivered on 25 August after many months’ anticipation, the new bus is a long-awaited Hyundai Staria, which has been funded by

REMEMBRANCE for veterans of the Vietnam War was conducted in a solemn and poignant ceremony at ANZAC Park, Tea Gardens, on Friday, 18 August. While the Vietnam War’s end-date may be debated, 18 August was chosen as it commemorates the Battle of Long Tan, “a significant moment in Australia’s war

THE Myall River’s Natural Channel is now almost completely sealed off from Port Stephens, a NOTA investigation can reveal. Drone images supplied by the Myall River Action Group (MRAG) clearly show the immediate situation, with the channel now half its width of four months ago. Advertise with News of The Area

VEHICULAR vandalism has been wrought upon the small, but beautiful, garden at the corner of Yamba Street and Tuloa Avenue in Hawks Nest. A small spread of bromeliads, carefully planted by the Tuesday morning volunteer garden group across the road from the newsagency has been run over. Advertise with News of

A SMOKY horizon greeted the coast on Friday 14 July, with planned hazard reduction burns reducing fuel loads in the surrounding bush. Tea Gardens/Pindimar Rural Fire Service, joined by significant elements from Nabiac and Limeburners Creek stations, performed critical, controlled burning on 6.14 hectares at the top of the hill,

WHALES will be a permanent fixture at Bennetts Beach, Hawks Nest, having materialised upon the western wall of the Tea Gardens Hawks Nest Surf Life Saving Club’s storage block, courtesy of local artist Jeanette Hart and members of the Myall River Art Walk. In the ongoing quest to beautify the