28 Jan 10 | RATHMINES Catalina Festival has been awarded the top spot by Lake Macquarie City Council as the Community Event of the year.
Founding organiser of the event and himself a finalist in council's
28 Jan 10 | DESPITE a high-profile committee creating a professional and detailed study paper demonstrating a compelling need for a moderate-sized hospital in Morisset, the chances of it being built in the forese
28 Jan 10 | A MORISSET couple have sought legal advice to back their strong objections to a discount petrol station which Woolworths plans to build close to the new McDonald's opposite Morisset Country Club.
28 Jan 10 | A BONNELLS Bay teenager smashed his ex-girlfriend's car with a golf club, but denied arming himself with a speargun, Newcastle Local Court heard last week.
Police found Zachary James Barker, 19
28 Jan 10 | doing something right.
"We are dedicated to creating a hanger-style museum which will house the Catalina aircraft which has already been brought to Australia.
"Our next festival in Octo
28 Jan 10 | JUST five years ago Steve Windus was a drinker, smoker and weighed a hefty and unhealthy 142 kilograms.
The Rathmines tiler, concreter and security guard was warned by his family doctor that th
28 Jan 10 | the bottom line is there's no money even though our model for this hospital shows it would be highly effective at relatively modest cost in the scheme of things."
Mr Piper said funding was not
28 Jan 10 | DORA Creek Workers Club cricketer Ethan Urquhart has a bright future as an all-rounder if his recent form is anything to go by.
A member of the Newcastle IDCA junior representative team this se
28 Jan 10 | MORISSET will possibly soon have three Caltex fuel stations within 700 metres of each other.
The town's second Caltex station is expected to open for business at the end of next month.
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28 Jan 10 | ONE year ago Kay Rains planted a tiny silky oak tree nurtured from a seed in the gentle foreshore woodlands of Sunshine reserve.
Shortly afterwards, on Christmas Eve, Kay, 70, tragically fell d
28 Jan 10 | FORMER Warnervale student Dimitrios Papadatos finished tied for 32nd at three over in the Lake Macquarie Men's Amateur Championship golf trophy last week.
Toronto's Callan O'Reilly was equal 37
28 Jan 10 | WALKING on the wild side through Sunshine bush will soon be a pleasantly tame pastime on the new stretch of boardwalk built by Southlake Landcare Group.
The boardwalk became part of a long-term
28 Jan 10 | THE owner of the security company which responded to an armed hold up at Dora Creek Workers Club last month has reacted angrily to rumours that his patrolman fled the scene.
"This is a rumour w
28 Jan 10 | TORONTO Chamber of Commerce has resolved not to hand over the name, identity logos or domain rights of the town's Heritage Afloat regatta to a new committee of volunteer 'boaties'.
But the two
28 Jan 10 | THIEVES have destroyed an $80,000 boat after taking it from its Lake Macquarie mooring in the early hours on Wednesday last week, running it aground and setting it on fire.
Police were called t
21 Jan 10 | LAKE Macquarie mayor, Cr Greg Piper has hit back at assertions made by Toronto real estate agent Paul Campbell in last week's Lakes Mail that council was hypocritical in removing a fig tree from in fr
21 Jan 10 | AFTER 13 years as the town's favourite local newspaper, the Lakes Mail has moved its Morisset offices for ensured future business development and growth.
We have moved from the corner of Yambo
21 Jan 10 | MANNERING Park ratepayers are concerned Wyong Shire Council is trying to sneak its draft climate change policy into being without appropriate community consultation.
21 Jan 10 | MANNERING Park real estate proprietor Tracey Maguire is concerned that Wyong Shire Council's draft climate change policy and vulnerability maps are alarmist and could have devastating consequences on
21 Jan 10 | not consulting with the community when they did anything," he said.
Mr Regnis said the severity and prevalence of the projected impacts of sea-level rises warranted council contacting e
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