A LARGE outdoor heated pool, native gardens and a cultural art trail will soon take shape at Reflections Hawks Nest, alongside a refurbishment of park amenities, following Council’s approval of a development application by Reflections Holidays. The $1.4 million, “stage two” refurbishment of the popular Hawks Nest holiday park follows

THE LGA’s Koala Conservation Strategy was adopted by Councillors at the June 26 meeting of MidCoast Council. The strategy was placed on public exhibition from 25 March to 6 May 2024, with Council receiving 38 submissions, totalling 169 comments from the community and government agencies. Advertise with News of The

TEA Gardens Lions united for their annual Changeover Dinner, held this year at Mumm’s On The Myall on a chilly winter’s night on Wednesday 26 June. The special occasion marked the changeover from last year’s Board to this year’s, and the night was a formal, yet familiar affair for all,

RECENT contentious roadworks at the foot of the Singing Bridge have caused several community groups to lament the often slow and impenetrable bureaucracy that gives painful birth to such projects. Community concerns centre on issues such as the impregnable nature of inter-governmental agencies and their perceived lack of communication with

A GRAND day out was had by the members of the Tea Gardens Hawks Nest Motor Club, who assembled their fleet of beloved vehicles to journey to Heritage Gardens, near Maitland, on Thursday 20 June. “The Motor Club generally holds a monthly lunch outing to venues within about an hour

DAMAGE and vandalism have blighted Tea Gardens’ Elouera Park for months, but recent improvements have seen the former eyesore become a pleasant place to picnic once again. Among the worst of the damage was that done to the structural integrity of the Lions Lookout, a popular and beautiful stopping place

MIDCOAST Council is offering local tourism operators the opportunity to strengthen their appeal to high yielding, environmentally conscious visitor markets by becoming ECO Certified with Ecotourism Australia. Council, in partnership with key local, State and national stakeholders, is itself on the journey to certifying the Barrington Coast as an Eco Destination

MOBILE phone coverage in Bulahdelah suffers from the same critical infrastructure shortfalls as all other towns across the Myall Coast. According to the Radio Frequency National Site Archive (RFNSA), there are three mobile ‘towers’ in Bulahdelah. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it for your business. Message

LONG lines formed outside the Hawks Nest Community Centre on Thursday 13 June for a drop-in session to assist residents’ understanding of MidCoast Council’s proposed new Local Environmental Plan (LEP). The LEP, as reported previously in NOTA, is an attempt to consolidate the most useful parts of the three ‘legacy’