PORT Macquarie RSPCA is inviting the community to join them for the final lap of their Million Paws Walk. After 30 years of branches around the country raising $17m to fight animal cruelty, this will be the event’s last. The decision to hang up the leash was due to cost-of-living pressures and the rise in […]

Country Women’s Association members Pat Banister, Robyn Baker, Jill Adams and Wendy Evans taking a break on Town Green on Friday morning to read the first edition of News Of The Area. Photo: Pauline Cain. A wet Saturday morning with coffee and the first edition of NOTA at Roam Cafe, Flynns Beach Photo: Pauline Cain. […]

ELLEN Crepaz has always had a heart for helping others, but it was in the close-knit community of Port Macquarie that she discovered just how much of a difference one person can make. Arriving in the region from Sydney nine years ago, looking to make a fresh start, she ended up finding a sense of […]

WHILE the Mid North Coast has experienced a significant downpour for what feels like a few months, local anglers know a bit of rain is often beneficial for the waterways in the long run, though some sunny days would certainly be appreciated. Unfortunately, the forecast suggests continued wet conditions for the rest of May. The […]

  The Cenotaph at the end of Horton Street, Port Macquarie. Photo: Sue Stephenson.   Rhys Birrane of Club Lake Cathie and Alistair Flower of Flower Hotels will be encouraging patrons to “shout a veteran a beer”. Photos: supplied.   VETERANS and serving defence force personnel have been busy steaming their suits and polishing their […]

FAYE Davis has been a keen member, student and tutor at Port Macquarie’s University of the Third Age (U3A) for 22 years.  Aged 92, she epitomises the U3A motto, “Learners Live Longer.” U3A is an international movement founded on the belief that older people, who are considered to be in their “third age of life”, […]

The three Lindman daughters, Dorothy, Irene, and Ruth at the lighthouse keeper’s cottage. Photo: supplied. Lindman’s descendants; granddaughter Janelle Higgins, great-grandson Greg Higgins, and great-great-grandsons Jeremy, Stephen, and Adam Wall, and Benjamin and Liam Higgins. Lindman’s wife Elizabeth Sheather. Photo: supplied. Irene plays with her siblings John and Dorothy at the William Street cottage in […]

PORT MACQUARIE’S Catholic community is mourning the death of Pope Francis, who passed away suddenly following a heart attack at the age of 88. A Mass was held on Tuesday, 22 April, at St Agnes’ Catholic Church and was led by Parish Priest Father Paul Gooley and Assistant Priest Father Prodencio. Father Gooley told News […]

TEN-year-old Oliver Davis of Kew lives with a rare autoimmune disorder known as Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP). The condition impacts his peripheral nervous system, leading to the intermittent loss of nerve function, and fatigue. Oliver undergoes essential Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy each month, and is flown to the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick on board […]

RESIDENTS, conservation groups and marine scientists have called for a “pause” in sand mining operations at the Hy-tec quarry off Diamond Head Road. As previously reported by News Of The Area, parent company Adbri Concrete and Quarries Northern NSW has applied to Port Macquarie-Hastings Council to amend its 30-year-old Development Application (DA). It initially sought […]