Rev Maree Armstrong, priest of St John’s Stroud, hosts morning tea.
Rev Maree Armstrong, priest of St John’s Stroud, hosts morning tea. Local Stroud farmer Dawn Tawse. Brother Christopher-John, flanked on the left by Brother Bruce-Paul, Linda Simpson and Melissa Davey-Dew, and on the right, Rev Maree Armstrong. MORE than 80 visitors gathered at Stroud’s mud brick monastery on Saturday 30 August, for a peaceful and […]
Anne Higgins and Carol Skafte-Zauss celebrate.
Dungog Early Literacy has 100 children enrolled. Anne Higgins addresses the audience. Anne Higgins and Carol Skafte-Zauss celebrate. THE Friends of Dungog Shire Community Centre and Dungog Early Literacy marked a major milestone last week, celebrating the enrolment of the 100th child in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program. The global initiative, which is offered locally […]
MORE than a dozen volunteers and growers met at the CWA courtyard in Dungog after Saturday morning’s Growers’ Stall. The stall turned 13 this month, so the group gathered for a celebratory lunch. The Dungog Growers Stall is a community building activity which provides locals with fresh, locally-grown produce. It also gives surplus food to […]
Members of the Clarence Town Progress Association test out the equipment.
Members of the Clarence Town Progress Association test out the equipment. Members of the Clarence Town Progress Association test out the equipment. EXECUTIVE members of the Clarence Town Progress Association (CTPA) held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the commissioning of the new outdoor gym facility at the Clarence Town Village Green on Saturday, 6 […]
APPRENTICE butcher Mitchell Simmonds, 18, will step onto the competition floor at TAFE NSW Granville on Thursday, vying for the title of the Australian Meat Industry Council’s (AMIC) 2025 Apprentice of the Year. Mitchell is in his third year of a Certificate III in Meat Processing (Retail Butcher), studying at TAFE Hamilton, and is an […]
Public sector nurses and midwives will receive an interim pay rise and improved working conditions.
THE NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) has voted to accept the NSW Government’s offer of a three percent interim wage increase and enhancements to working conditions. “At the conclusion of the vote on the public sector interim offer from the NSW Government, branches have accepted the offer, with 88.2 percent of participating branches with […]
Member for Oxley Michael Kemp discusses flood recovery with Premier Chris Minns and NSW Nationals leader Dugald Saunders in May. Photo: Michael Kemp FB.
THE State Government last week announced it would immediately double the number of staff members working on the processing of Rural Assistance Authority (RAA) Recovery Grants for primary producers impacted by the May floods. Since June, the RAA has received almost 2,000 applications and has approved more than $23 million in payments, however the Government […]
HUNTER residents are encouraged to have their say on the Hunter Transmission Project’s environmental impact statement (EIS), which is now on public display and open for submissions. EnergyCo lodged the EIS with the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure last week, which will be on public exhibition until 5pm on Wednesday 24 September. According to […]
Elizabeth Crouch AM.
ELIZABETH Crouch AM has been announced as Chair of the Hunter Water Board of Directors for a three-year term. In a statement to media, Hunter Water said that Ms Crouch brings extensive experience across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, with a distinguished career in governance, infrastructure and public policy. She currently chairs the boards […]
Guests walk the red carpet into the James Theatre.
Guests walk the red carpet into the James Theatre. Lining up to enter the Gala Cocktail Party. Bruce Pussell, locals Martyn Robinson and Lynne McNairn, and sculptor Sally Robinson. Nibbling delicacies and talking sculpture at the Gala. DIGNITARIES, artists, volunteers and guests rubbed shoulders at Sculpture On The Farm’s Gala Cocktail Party. The red carpet […]
