LAUNCHING a boat at Tea Gardens’ Apex Park jetty has become a thing of the past, as orange danger fencing and a hastily attached “wharf closed” sign now bars passage. It is a physical manifestation of the bureaucratic red tape that has been wrapped around the jetty for more than

PROBLEMS plaguing our roads may have been solved more than a decade ago, an investigation by News Of The Area has revealed. The addition of recycled glass to the ingredients used to make road surfaces 12 years ago seems to have worked well locally, given they are still performing. Advertise with News

LANDFILL operations are set to change significantly, in accordance with a State Government environmental policy. MidCoast Council has announced that the Stroud Waste Management Centre has just received $168,457 as part of the NSW Government's ‘Landfill Consolidation and Environmental Improvements’ grant. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth

BULKY waste and awkward, unwanted large items can soon find a new home, out of place and out of mind, with the MidCoast Council Bulky Waste Collection now upon us. Given the massive geographical scale of the MidCoast LGA, all the localities within have been assigned specific, differing dates for

ADVENTURE upon the high seas has given one local young man a life-altering experience, as he sailed from Sydney to Brisbane aboard the STV Windeward Bound. Kassian Sikora’s story featured in News Of The Area recently, this being his successful return from his inspirational tall-ship adventure, carrying priceless life experiences,

BOTANICAL beauty is not easy, but the dedication of the Tea Gardens Hawks Nest Volunteer Garden Group has lovingly tended the beds and plants around the park beside Hawks Nest Community Hall. When the Group first met in October, 2020, during the depths of the pandemic, it was for one

YEARS of planning, lobbying and discussion have finally come to fruition, with the beginning of construction on a much-needed footpath along Mirreen Street, Hawks Nest, connecting Peter Sinclair Gardens to Tuloa Avenue. Especially for the elderly residents of the Gardens, this is a long-held dream-come-true, and one of paramount safety.

LONG overdue hazard reduction burning was performed to protect the Tea Gardens industrial estate on Saturday, 13 May. Locals and visitors down near the river may have been alarmed to spot the plume of smoke rising from the top of the hill, on Council land just off the Myall Way.

BEAUTIFICATION is in the hands of the children at the Tea Gardens Skate Park along the Myall Way. The weather-beaten blocks of featureless concrete that are the Skate Park’s ramps and jumps greet motorists at the gateway to Tea Gardens, and they need some attention. Advertise with News of The

POWER will be cut due to planned outages across Hawks Nest, from Monday, 1 May to Saturday, 6 May, as local power provider Essential Energy undertakes major electricity maintenance. All customers affected by the series of planned outages should have already received notification of the planned outages, most of which