The car being raced in the Mystery Box Rally 2025.
The car being raced in the Mystery Box Rally 2025. Laura Orr and her dad Steve Parkin in 2024, winning the Best Dressed team award. Photo: Mystery Box Rally. Laura Orr and Steve on the finish line in 2024. LAURA Orr and her dad Steve Parkin are preparing for their second Mystery Box Rally. The […]
The orchestra’s young string players will soon visit Europe.
A FREE “warm-up” concert at Marian Grove Retirement Village on Saturday the 24 May will be performed by the Coffs Harbour City Orchestra. Called Potpourri, the concert features a mix of musical items from a range of genres; Jazz (Duke Ellington), Big Band medleys, Musicals and Opera (The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, Carmen), Movies […]
The Easter display installation.
The Easter display installation. The Easter display installation. The Easter display installation. THE Easter holiday weekend provided the ideal conditions to showcase a Community Craft Project in the heart of Woolgoolga. Visitors and locals alike were greeted with a veritable inundation of handmade daffodils and butterflies. In the weeks leading up to Easter, students from […]
Mangrove forests provide ideal fish habitat for bream and luderick.
I TOOK the opportunity over the past couple of weeks to return to my hometown of Tweed Heads where unsurprisingly I found plenty of time to go fishing. The old family home is situated on the Terranora Lakes, fed by the Tweed River, some five kilometres (km) from the river mouth. A pontoon in […]
As reported to NPWS by Sea Shelter, over the October 2024 to January 2025 period, we have lost a total of six turtles in Port Stephens.
AROUND this time last year, it was reported that over 40 turtles had died in Port Stephens between October and December as a result of boat and jet ski strike, ingestion of plastics and entanglement in fishing line and crab traps. This was an alarming figure as we, as a community, had made a […]
