THE 93rd annual Gresford Show will be held from 7-8 March at the Gresford Showgrounds. Show highlights include steer rides, post splitting, animal nursery, pet parade, show jumping and more. Fireworks will light up the night sky on Saturday evening. The program includes hundreds of horse show classes, a very competitive campdraft, a variety of […]
The Mini Boomerangs team, Lucas, Kalani, Zac, Michael (coach), Isaac, Albie, Walt, Ryder, Nathan, Chris (coach), Archer. Front row: Olive and Vincent.
Mini Boomerangs kick off
A BRAND-NEW initiative from Dungog Soccer Club has given local kids their first taste of the game, with the introduction of the Mini-Boomerangs program. Designed for children who have never played soccer before, the program has seen 18 enthusiastic youngsters aged four to eight hit the training paddock at Barnes Oval for four Thursday afternoon […]
Each Hairhouse location combines a retail store featuring 200-plus globally loved haircare brands with a professional hair studio.
BUSINESS SHOWCASE: Hairhouse expands to Coffs Harbour
A LEADING brand with over 30 years’ experience, Hairhouse is officially opening its newest location at Park Beach Plaza next week. The grand opening is on Thursday 13 March. Each Hairhouse location combines a retail store featuring 200-plus globally loved haircare brands with a professional hair studio. “Healthy hair starts at Hairhouse,” the team said. […]
Dungog Shire News Of The Area 5 MARCH 2025
The Big Screen
CINEMA in a sentence, Vol. 3! Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (Parasite) teams with Robert Pattinson, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo to present Mickey 17, a sci-fi black comedy in which a desperate man seeks a minimum-wage life on another planet which requires him to be cloned any time he is killed in the course of […]
Letter to the Editor: Dungog’s caravan parks – or lack thereof
DEAR News Of The Area, I READ with some interest Cr Ley’s proposal for an investigation into a proper caravan park for Dungog. The lack of a van park has been a constant problem for many, many years. Forty and more years ago, when my wife and our two then preteen children were caravaners, as […]
Cyclone leftovers to blame for forecast East Coast drenching
THE expected East Coast drenching is the result of a “perfect storm” of circumstances”. The Bureau of Meteorology put out a Flood Watch on Sunday 2 March, alerting the upper Mid North Coast region to the after-effects of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, moving in from the South Pacific. “Rainfall associated with Tropical Cyclone Alfred has the […]
Dungog Shire artists complete mural project
AN ARTS initiative featuring Dungog’s Lisa Wiseman and Clarence Town’s Bec Towers has brought life back to a walking path at Muscle Creek, Muswellbrook. “Muswellbrook Shire Council with the support of local community groups and volunteers is returning Muscle Creek to its former glory,” the Council stated. Council commissioned Ms Wiseman to paint the plain, […]
NSW and SA unite to curb bullying with landmark agreement
THE NSW and South Australia state governments will collaborate on measures to combat bullying in schools. Deputy Premier and NSW Education Minister Prue Car and her South Australian education counterpart Blair Boyer signed a joint agreement to tackle the scourge of bullying. The joint effort follows the success of last year’s groundbreaking Social Media Summit, […]
Plan for Dungog tourism to be updated
DUNGOG Regional Tourism (DRT) is updating its Destination Management Plan (DMP). It is now seeking the input of businesses and other organisations across the Shire with an interest in tourism and related matters. “Destination Management Plans are a way of putting together a general strategy as to what needs to be done in a region […]
