04 Feb 10 | COL Gillespie has been sailing boats for 40 years, but the old salt from Coal Point reckons he finally met his match when he decided to buy and start racing historic 10-foot skiffs three years ago.
04 Feb 10 | SOLOMON Dunsdon plays a handsome guitar donated by Australian country singing icon Keith Urban and he and his three brothers all have a bright future to soften the tragedy which beset the single paren
04 Feb 10 |
THE $120 million Bluetongue brewery taking shape at Warnervale will be one of the most water-efficient in the world, says manufacturing director and chief brewer Tim Williams.
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04 Feb 10 | ONE quickly gets the impression that producing beer is not just a job to Tim Williams.
Bluetongue's manufacturing director and chief beer-maker tours his company's soon-to-be-completed new $120
04 Feb 10 | WYONG Shire Council's back flip on implementing a climate change policy is only a "stay of execution" for the 10,000 land holders estimated to be affected under the plan, says councillor Greg Best.BR
04 Feb 10 | private individuals in our area and beyond have showed great generosity and compassion," Mr Roach said.
"It restores your faith in human nature when you see the ways people have come to the fam
04 Feb 10 | GRAHAM Field can't boast a baggy green cap for his cricket prowess, but he deserves something of the kind from Newcastle City and Suburban Cricket Association, if only for his marathon length of play
04 Feb 10 | AS a teenager in 1959 Friedhelf Otto Sitte fled communist East Germany before ending up in Australia.
Now known as Frank and living in Bonnells Bay, the 66-year-old has considered himself dinky
04 Feb 10 | THE adage that there's a book in every person can be taken seriously now that Wyong will have a 'living library' starting on Wednesday.
Already trialled by Lake Macquarie City Council libraries
04 Feb 10 | GRANDPARENTS expect to be 'used' by their children as babysitters and most confess to enjoying quality time with their grandchildren.
But after an all-day session, most grandparents also apprec
04 Feb 10 | G'day. As golf's superstar continues to fade, tennis's superstar just seems to get better and better. Well done Roger Federer.
In piscatorial matters, the fishing gods definitely work weekends,
04 Feb 10 | WANGI and district menfolk are closer to building their shed.
The 36-strong Men's Shed group are negotiating with a builder to draw up the plans and submit them to Lake Macquarie City Council.
04 Feb 10 | The Sunshine regatta will create some history of its own as the first time the titles have ever been held outside of Sydney.
The event will also mark the inaugural Lake Macquarie Historic 10-Fo
04 Feb 10 | POOR weather shrunk the crowds but Morisset's 56th annual two-day show, a regional agricultural society precursor to the Royal Easter Show in Sydney, featured many new facets and was a success, the or
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