29 Jul 10 | THE official but informal opening of the $4 million roundabout at the Dorrington Road, Rathmines accident blackspot was an election opener last week, a fact that has angered some original campaigners.
29 Jul 10 | WYONG coach Paul Stringer has the type of headache that every rugby league coach would welcome at the business end of the season.
"We haven't had a bad player in four games," Stringer said in the w
29 Jul 10 | NOVOCASTRIAN Leigh McKechnie, the home-grown golfer who famously won last year's NSW Open trophy by just one shot from James Nitties, will be one of the hot names at the 2010 Morisset Pro-Am next week
29 Jul 10 | GEORGE Drysdale, owner of the Morisset Country Club and its golf course has died at his Sydney home aged 90.
Mr Drysdale, a former tail gunner in the RAF during WW11, used to joke that war mission
29 Jul 10 | ANZAC rosemary and Armistice Day Flanders red poppies are already growing in a small but poignant garden of remembrance formally opened last week in Morisset's Yunung Community Garden.
Performing t
29 Jul 10 | MORGAN Denmark, the 20-year-old steam enthusiast who rebuilt a 1910 Fowler steam road locomotive from boxes of bits, some of which had been cut up for scrap, spent last week putting the "new old girl"
29 Jul 10 | LAKE Macquarie City Council's proposed controversial new Development Control Plan for 'sustainable development' may be illegal, the Housing Industry Association says.
The association was further co
29 Jul 10 | LAKE Macquarie City Council has put on exhibition a proposal for two pedestrian crossings outside Morisset High School almost two years after two students from the school were hit by cars in separate
29 Jul 10 | MACQUARIE Scorpions will host Lakes United at Peacock Field this Sunday in Round 15 of the Tooheys Cup rugby league premiership.
The Scorpions are coming off a 36-10 loss to premiership front-runne
29 Jul 10 | MEMBERS of Southlake Old Boys, the social club for retired mates, has formed a new Citizens Auxiliary to supplement the work of the Women's Auxiliary in helping the Returned and Services League (RSL)
29 Jul 10 | A COMMUNITY bank owned by locals is nearing reality on Morisset peninsula.
The Bonnells Bay & Districts Community Bank� campaign has secured more than $800,000 in pledges from more than 200 applica
29 Jul 10 | GREG Piper, normally a vocal champion of cycleways, has launched a broadside at the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) for sacrificing parking spaces to create an on-road cycleway in Morisset's main st
29 Jul 10 | UP to 20 local jobs will be created when Morisset's newest fuel service station opens in the Gateway industrial park in around eight weeks time.
And contrary to earlier reports, the new station wil
29 Jul 10 | SOUTHERN Lakes sealed the Newcastle A Grade rugby union minor premiership with a 52-nil thumping of second-placed Pokolbin at Gibson Oval on Saturday.
It was the Hammerheads' fourth consecutive win
29 Jul 10 | THEY may still be anchored to the bottom of the Northern NSW State League soccer ladder, but the Toronto Awaba Stags are still putting in.
On Sunday, the Stags held semi-final aspirants Valentine P
29 Jul 10 | EVERYBODY with a touch of green in their soul should be at Wangi Ridge Reserve on Sunday to celebrate National Tree Day.
That's when Lake Macquarie Landcare and the Wangi Ridge Preservation Board L
29 Jul 10 | A SMALL village in Papua New Guinea was so grateful to receive a donation of Macquarie Scorpions football jumpers that the local rugby league team has changed its name to the Kagi Scorpions.
Macqua
22 Jul 10 | LMCC has launched a permanent drop-off site at Awaba Waste Management Facility where any working or non-working eWaste items are accepted free of charge for recycling.
The new service is funded by
22 Jul 10 | WYONG Roos flexed their premiership muscles with a 70-12 win over Macquarie in the Tooheys Cup rugby league match at Peacock Field on Sunday.
Wyong scored 12 tries to lead 70-nil before the home te
22 Jul 10 | BUSINESS owners in Morisset and surrounding districts should be able to sleep easier with a merger announced this week between Morisset-based Vital Security (Novocastrian Alarms & Video) and Newcastle
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