MIDCOAST Council is again partnering with NBN Co to host free scam awareness seminars at Council Libraries across the LGA, with Tea Gardens hosting on Wednesday 28 February, 2pm-3:30pm. “We are passionate about giving our community the opportunity to get connected and stay safe in an online environment,” said Alex Mills,

ON Tuesday 30 January, Fire and Rescue and Rural Fire Service (RFS) crews sprung into action following reports of a structure fire at a mechanics shop in Tea Gardens. Their rapid response helped prevent the blaze from spreading to nearby buildings. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it

CELEBRATING the Singing Bridge’s 50th Anniversary this year requires a retrospective on what it took finally to build ‘Our Bridge’, now the centrepiece of Tea Gardens and Hawks Nest townships. Plenty of documentary evidence suggests that Hawks Nest was little more than a bushland holiday spot when the first unofficial

RECENT upgrades to the North Arm Cove (NAC) website have underscored the site’s status as a model of what regional communities can do online today. While many regional towns do not even have a website, leaving locals to rely on sporadic and unfiltered social media, the residents of NAC have,

THE recent holiday season has proven once again that the Myall Coast is in demand as a holiday destination and stopover on the journey north or south. While the lack of parking in Tea Gardens/Hawks Nest and Bulahdelah causes concern to many locals, the instigation of two hour limits by MidCoast

TEA Gardens writer Phillip Everett has been shortlisted in the Hunter Writers’ Centre’s annual short story competition, the Newcastle Short Story Award. Phillip has been writing since the 1980s, including time in South Australia (SA) as a founding member of a writers' group, where he received a writers' grant from

LONG-AWAITED upgrades to the Hawks Nest Community Hall are finally nearing completion, to the palpable relief of the many local community groups that call it home. A topic of contention at MidCoast Council’s Community Conversations last year, the local groups are happier now that measurable developments can be seen along

MULTITUDES attended the Myall U3A Enrolment Day held at the Tea Gardens Baptist Church on Tuesday 23 January. Spoilt-for-choice enrollees could explore their artistic inclinations with the Art Group, Choir, Film, Music, Opera, Photography and Writers’ Groups, or pursue pastimes such as Cards, Friday Presentations, Garden and Nature, or Yoga.