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Code-hopper Mark Nawaqanitawase keeps options open

RUGBY Australia may believe Mark Nawaqanitawase is returning to rugby to wear the Wallabies gold, but the super talent insists he’s keeping his options open. Mark Nawaqanitawase is refusing to rule out turning his back on Australia for next year’s home Rugby World Cup as a three-nation tug-of-war for the cross-code super talent escalates. While […]

Sport

Dungog’s Dixies and Dynamos finish the season strong

The Dungog Dixies. Photo: Supplied. The Dungog Dynamos. Photo: Supplied. THE Dungog Dixies and Dungog Dynamos have brought their seasons to a memorable close, with the under-10s celebrating a grand final championship and the under-12s finishing runners-up after two impressive campaigns in the Maitland competition. Both teams took to the court for their final games […]

Featured

Gresford Community Market returns

Market organiser Leanne Drew with Bob Doyle and Bob Cannon. Dungog artist Jenny Akers bought a new hat at the market. THE much-loved Gresford Community Market made a bigger and better than ever return on Saturday, 10 October, with 31 stalls. Small businesses and several community organisations took advantage of the increased number of spaces […]

Community, Local News, National, Regional

A ‘terrible starvation event’ is decimating NSW flying fox camps

A MASS starvation event is killing flying foxes across large tracts of NSW. Residents across the state are taking to social media to report uncharacteristic daytime behaviour and close suburban encounters with the flying mammals as they desperately search for food and water. The Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) recently shared news of […]

Community, Government, Local News

Proposed changes in Paterson and Vacy communities

Vacy Bridge, heading toward Gresford. Vacy Bridge, heading into Vacy toward Paterson. Paterson tree, opposite Paterson Chemist. Paterson trees, approximately 70 years old. Aerial photo of Paterson by Dr Cameron Archer in June, 1985, showing well-established trees. Photo: Supplied by Paterson Historical Society. Aerial photo of Paterson in the late 1950s showing young trees. Photo: […]

Community, Local News

Champion bare-knuckle boxer ‘Paddy’ Slavin, Vacy’s famous son

Shaping up: Vacy’s ‘Paddy’ Slavin was a world champion bare-knuckle boxing champion. Photo: Supplied by Cameron Archer. Remembering a favourite son, ‘Paddy’ is honoured in Vacy with a plaque and information board. Photo: Supplied by Cameron Archer. TOUGH times called for tough men, and The Sydney Cornstalk, Frank ‘Paddy’ Slavin was as tough as they […]

Highlights

Murrook display brings Regent Honeyeaters’ survival struggle sharply into focus

Nicole Chaffey, curator and director of Murrook Cultural Centre, with the striking Regent Honeyeater display she created. Photo: Althea Guinsberg. A visual representation of the Regent Honeyeater’s remaining population hangs from the ceiling, highlighting the plight of this critically endangered bird. Photo: Althea Guinsberg. HUNDREDS of small yellow and black birds hang overhead in Murrook […]

Highlights

New Tocal pilot course takes flight

STUDENTS at the NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) Tocal College will have the opportunity to upskill in one of agriculture’s rapidly emerging technologies, with new training focused on the safe and effective use of drones for pesticide application. Tocal College has partnered with drone specialists FPV Australia to deliver FIELDS – […]

STINKER: Of boats and tragedies: Shining a light on our seafaring early settlers

The ferry Yacaaba, skippered by George Lambourne. Photo: Supplied by John Clarke. The Simplex, owned and worked by the Lambourne family in the early 1900s. Photo: Supplied by John Clarke. PIONEERING families on the Tomaree Peninsula were mostly seafarers or fishers, with the Cromarty family the first to arrive in 1824. Boats were a part […]

The Write Direction

THE WRITE DIRECTION: Who gets the haircut?

THE Government’s response to the immigration debate was laid out recently by Tony Bourke. The whole country was interested to see the numbers and categories selected to produce reduced entry. Like every decision made by Government, there was the reality that there would be winners and losers to their solution and of course we all […]