24 Jun 10 | MORISSET library now has a small but unique collection of academic material available for loan thanks to Avondale College.
Marilyn Gane, head of Avondale's impressive Cooranbong campus library, pre
24 Jun 10 | WHEN it comes to expertise in the kitchen, former Avondale School hospitality student Sam Branster, is a proven cut above the rest.
Sam, who now works as a chef in the prestigious Icebergs Restaura
24 Jun 10 | A MAN who shot an ibis on a Morisset property said he was asked by an elderly woman to euthanase the sick bird, Newcastle District Court heard on Friday.
Ricky Peter Hergenhan, 32, was convicted an
24 Jun 10 | IN January 2009 virtually every resident in a secluded rural corner of Morisset noted for its gracious homes on large, quiet blocks, declared war on a proposal by Heritage College Lake Macquarie Inc t
24 Jun 10 | PROFESSIONAL driver Pete Leney takes a five-tonne Mitsubishi rigid box truck under the rail bridge at Dora Creek's Baker Street daily.
The bridge carries a sign warning the maximum height clearance
24 Jun 10 | A DRUG court that will cost $3.7 million a year is to be established at Toronto in an effort to drive down crime fuelled by substance abuse.
NSW Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said a recent eva
24 Jun 10 | FOR once, the score mattered little in this game of schoolboy rugby union.
For the record, Macquarie College was beaten 45-19 by its sister school, Brisbane Adventist College (BAC).
But the fixt
24 Jun 10 | MACQUARIE Scorpions and Wyong Roos both suffered losses in their Tooheys Cup rugby league matches at home on Sunday.
Macquarie scored two late tries but lost 38-26 to Northern Blues at Peacock Fiel
24 Jun 10 | MATTY Hay crossed for five tries in an outstanding individual performance as Southern Lakes swamped Medowie 55-12 in their Newcastle A grade rugby union match at Gibson Oval on Saturday.
Hay caused
24 Jun 10 | THE expression 'match making' has a literal significance for Alan Veitch of Buttaba but it has nothing to do with romance.
It was ill health that forced the talented former owner-operator of a pane
24 Jun 10 | MORISSET had their cage rattled when three players were sent off in a rugged match against Bellbird Bombers at Dora Creek Oval on Sunday.
Morisset won the InterDistrict 2 match 2-nil, but not befor
24 Jun 10 | DORA CReek is about to get it's purpose built al la carte restaurant back.
The elegant restaurant opened as the Lanyard Stone Grill in 2006 but was taken over by the restaurant's chef, Andrew Mille
24 Jun 10 | ROADS Minister David Borger has stopped short of committing to a school speed zone on Toronto's busy main street but said the RTA had been asked to urgently complete a review of roads in the area.
24 Jun 10 | BUCCANEERING members of the Dynamic Dora Creek Toastmasters celebrated the end of another successful year by wielding cutting comments and walking the plank as pirates.
In a specially themed meeti
24 Jun 10 | ROAD safety campaigner and Toronto resident Bob Thorburn is calling for a review of traffic lane road markings following the death of a 58-year-old motorcyclist on Main Road 217 at Buttaba on Wednesda
24 Jun 10 | ONE man is dead, an elderly couple needed to be cut from their car and three children narrowly escaped death in three separate accidents on the same morning within a few kilometres of each other last
24 Jun 10 | EVERY Aussie bloke needs a shed - with a beer fridge in it.
Or does he?
The shocking price rises of electricity last November prompted Wyong Shire Council to create a novel beer fridge buy back
17 Jun 10 | IT could have been a scene from Robin Hood's fabled Sherwood Forest with the ring of clashing swords filling the still morning air as knights in armour fought skilled woodsmen and even women wielded a
17 Jun 10 | LANDLUBBERING sailor Neil Stanborough, the Toronto yachtie currently circumventing Australia on a 233cc motorcycle, has met some famous faces and fabulous places on his travels.
Most recently was H
17 Jun 10 | LAKE Macquarie City Council is not allowed to say how much it cost ratepayers for council to exchange residents showerheads for flow efficient free units at Toronto Library last weekend.
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