July 22, 2026
Classic car club celebrates 20th anniversary Club members love to bring their pride and joys out for the community to enjoy.
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Classic car club celebrates 20th anniversary

Club members love to bring their pride and joys out for the community to enjoy. Club members love to bring their pride and joys out for the community to enjoy. THE Port Macquarie Antiques and Classic Car Club celebrates its 20th anniversary on 15 March.  The club started with a small group of people, each […]

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Mobi matting trial at Town Beach ensures access for all Council representatives, advocates and wheelchair users at Town Beach.
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Mobi matting trial at Town Beach ensures access for all

Council representatives, advocates and wheelchair users at Town Beach. Council representatives, advocates and wheelchair users at Town Beach. Bec Dalzell and Mike Lord trial the newly installed mobi matting. A pram user utilises the matting to access the beach. IN 2021 physiotherapist Bec Dalzell contacted Port Macquarie Hastings Council with the idea of getting mobi […]

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Mid North Coast Girl Guides unite for Thinking Day Celebrating Thinking Day at Bruce Porter Reserve.
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Mid North Coast Girl Guides unite for Thinking Day

Celebrating Thinking Day at Bruce Porter Reserve. Celebrating Thinking Day at Bruce Porter Reserve. BRUCE Porter Reserve in Laurieton sprung to life on Sunday 22 February as Girl Guides from Port Macquarie, Forster, Wauchope and Camden Haven came together to celebrate the centenary of Thinking Day. Joined by family members and volunteers, the world-wide event […]

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A fitting Port Macquarie welcome for local and international surfers Museum representatives with Deputy Mayor Nik Lipovac and local and international surfers.
Community

A fitting Port Macquarie welcome for local and international surfers

Museum representatives with Deputy Mayor Nik Lipovac and local and international surfers. Uncle Bill at the Smoking Ceremony with Cr Nik Lipovac, Surfing Museum President Alan Jeffrey, volunteer Joe Doust and Surf Club Vice President, Peter Hesse. A GROUP is being formed to explore the possibility of turning the stretch of coastline from Port Macquarie […]

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Hastings model rail group steaming ahead
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Hastings model rail group steaming ahead

The track and park are maintained by club members. The track and park are maintained by club members. THE recent closure of Timbertown has led to confusion over the future of the model railway at Yippin Creek. Hastings Valley Miniature Railway Society, which was founded in 2003, has been running trains at the site – […]

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Hastings stargazers prepare for incoming blood moon On Tuesday night, 3 March, the Moon will begin to change.
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Hastings stargazers prepare for incoming blood moon

ON a warm late summer evening, with cicadas humming and the day’s heat still in the air, something remarkable will unfold above Australia. On Tuesday night, 3 March, the Moon will begin to change. Slowly. Quietly. And then it will turn red. This will be a total lunar eclipse – a blood moon. For just […]

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Region ranks second in state for Garage Sale Trail participation Port Macquarie Hastings LGA ranked second in New South Wales and fourth nationally for the highest number of sales and stalls.
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Region ranks second in state for Garage Sale Trail participation

THE Port Macquarie Hastings region is one of Australia’s biggest supporters of second-hand items, based on the overwhelming success of last year’s Garage Sale Trail. Port Macquarie Hastings Council (PMHC) was among the top performers in both the state and national leaderboards, ranking second in New South Wales and fourth nationally for the highest number […]

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Port Macquarie community walking for a world without type 1 diabetes A previous One Walk event.
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Port Macquarie community walking for a world without type 1 diabetes

COMMUNITY members from across the Port Macquarie-Hastings region will come together on 8 March to fundraise for research into type 1 diabetes (T1D). The fundraising walk is organised by Breakthrough T1D (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), a leading supporter of global research into the condition. The local event is part of the organisation’s annual […]

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Dunbogan’s Bruce de Graaf cracks 700 blood donations
Community, Health

Dunbogan’s Bruce de Graaf cracks 700 blood donations

Bruce de Graaf making his 700th donation. Bruce de Graaf and Port Macquarie MP Rob Dwyer. DUNBOGAN’S Bruce de Graaf celebrated his 700th donation at Lifeblood Port Macquarie on Friday, 20 February. He now holds the record for the most blood/plasma donations in the Port Macquarie region and is one of the top ten donors […]

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Nominations open for 2026 NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards Molly Croft, the 2025 NSW Volunteer of the Year, with Minister Jodie Harrison (left), her mother Ange, and Minister Jihad Dib. Photo: Salty Dingo.
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Nominations open for 2026 NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards

NOMINATIONS for the 2026 NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards are now open, with family, friends and work mates urged to help celebrate the enormous positive impact of volunteers across the state. The awards are in their 20th year and are run by The Centre for Volunteering to recognise the outstanding work of volunteers in […]

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