29 Apr 10 | COUNCIL street light bills will rocket in one hit instead of the heavy increases being phased in over four years, Wyong Shire mayor Bob Graham reports.
"We received notification from the AER (Austr
29 Apr 10 | THE addition of new houses should lead to Morisset's Awaba Street being widened, but the developer responsible has told council he should not have to pay for it.
Larry Schur has approval for a 50-l
29 Apr 10 | DORA the Explorer does love a map.
So it should come as no surprise that the animated children's character has made her mark on a road sign that bears her name at Morisset.
An image of Dora the
29 Apr 10 | GROSSLY inadequate drop-off parking areas and "extortionate" fines for breaches lasting just seconds are causing parents stress at Bonnells Bay Public School.
But like other west Lake Macquarie par
29 Apr 10 | MACQUARIE Scorpions will be missing at least three key players when they take on Wyong in the Tooheys Cup rugby league match at Kanwal this Sunday.
Representative prop Danny Vaughan (knee), hooker
29 Apr 10 | LOCAL child musicians as young as six years old will perform in a unique charity concert in June.
The youngsters study under Cooranbong Seventh Day Adventist Avondale Memorial Church organist and t
29 Apr 10 | A FORMER building company executive will take the reigns of Wyong Shire next month as the council's new general manager.
Former Billbergia Group general manager Michael Whittaker's appointment was
29 Apr 10 | G'day. The storm we had on Anzac Day was a lot more welcome (to farmers, not marchers) than the storm that's raging around the NRL at the moment.
Some talk has been had as to the validity of weekly
29 Apr 10 | TAYLA Simmonds is eight years old and her dad, Stephen, has one leg.
But with mum, Fiona, at the wheel of their speed boat, the father and daughter team are titled masters of waterskiing.
Simmon
29 Apr 10 | MORISSET Strikers will employ tactics straight out of the Pythagorean play book when they take on Belmont Tingira at Baxter Field this Sunday.
Club spokesman Paul Smith said the Strikers were expec
29 Apr 10 | TORONTO-Awaba posted their first point on the Northern NSW State League football ladder with a 2-all draw against South Cardiff at Ulinga Oval on Sunday.
Trailing 2-1 with eight minutes remaining i
29 Apr 10 | WANGI'S famous Wilson drummer girls have scored another hit.
As members of the Sydney-based grade one The Pipeband Club, Emma, 21, and her youngest sister Chloe, 15, have won the highest grade Aust
29 Apr 10 | A MONTH after Nicki Sewell found out she had breast cancer, she went ahead with a plan to work alone as a personal trainer.
Two remissions, one relapse and three years later, Ms Sewell and nine wom
29 Apr 10 | TWO-time world champion Damian King held his nerve under pressure to win the recent Soldiers Beach Pro international bodyboarding final by the tightest of margins.
King, of Port Macquarie, edged ou
22 Apr 10 | ABOUT 40 members turned out for Cooranbong Pony Club’s Easter rally day at their home ground.
On the agenda was instruction in troop drill, jumping, time trials, dressage, certificate work, sporting and, of course, the famous horse ball game, run by Mansour Ayoub.
22 Apr 10 | A WEED worse than lantana has a foothold in Wyong Creek, but authorities say it has yet to take hold in Lake Macquarie.
Wyong Council noxious weeds officer Paul Marynissen spotted a kudzu infestati
22 Apr 10 | TWO cars were badly damaged and bottles hurled at a Bonnells Bay house last week in what has been described as a spill of around 25 drunken teenagers from the nearby skate park.
The occupant of the
22 Apr 10 | THE Salvation Army has denied rumours it is planning to close its Miracle Haven Morisset rehabilitation centre and move the services to a former holiday resort in Dooralong.
The Christian charity's
22 Apr 10 | CAR travel in Toronto during peak traffic times is an unacceptably slow, according to member for Lake Macquarie, Greg Piper.
Mr Piper said the Minister for Roads and Transport, David Campbell, had
22 Apr 10 | IN a flurry of yoke, white and learning, Coorangbong's Avondale School year fives took to a balcony this month for their annual Egg Drop.
The eggs, launched in the name of science, were fitted with
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