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18 Mar 10 | LAKE Macquarie City Council resolved last week to re-apply to the NSW Government to extend an environmental tax for four years.
The tax cost ratepayers $26 and businesses $91, on average, this fina
18 Mar 10 | MEDICARE Australia has been forced to take on extra staff to cope with a rush of 107,000 home insulation rebate claims, filed during the last days of the Rudd Government's dumped program.
The claim
18 Mar 10 | COORANBONG Park's garden maintenance champions Max Shanks, Bill Vandenberg and Ray Short are back to having the grass grow under their feet following the theft of their year-old community purchased mo
18 Mar 10 | THE Bonnells Bay drive for a Community Bank that will return profits to local projects is on the final lap for a feasibility study.
Committee spokesman Col Roach said the Bendigo Bank scheme had re
18 Mar 10 | PEAK hour traffic on the arterial Pacific Highway at San Remo is gridlocked thanks to a double set of traffic lights bringing vehicles to a standstill opposite the Northlakes Shopping Centre at least
18 Mar 10 | THE battle between Woolworths and the late Bert Gambrill over access to his Morisset property to complete a new shopping centre was settled out of court on Friday though details were not disclosed.br
18 Mar 10 | WINDOW shopping in waterfront Toronto will be more than just fun it will become a profitable adventure for a few lucky people next Thursday.
That's when a month-long Tommy the Turtle mystery shoppi
18 Mar 10 | LIFEGUARDS will be armed with electronic counting devices as part of their trial winter patrol of Soldiers Beach at Norah Head this year.
Wyong Shire Council has voted to trial seven-day-a week pat
18 Mar 10 | LAKE Macquarie City Council will crack down on unauthorised signage with a new policy that bans political and commercial banners on the roadside.
The policy approved at a council meeting last week
18 Mar 10 | DEVELOPER Keith Johnson will seek a court injunction to block a Lake Macquarie City Council order to remove a large advertising signboard for his multi-million dollar Trinity Point marina site at Mori
18 Mar 10 | CHEAP amusement rides, 60 stalls and a feast of entertainment with a multicultural flavour are again expected to attract a record crowd to the Warnervale and Districts Annual Fair this Saturday.
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18 Mar 10 | KEEN sailors, be they in command of a mini ocean liner, blue water racing yacht or just a 10-foot tinnie nudged along by an antique Seagull should make a date to be at Wangi this Sunday.
Wangi Sail
18 Mar 10 | ALMOST 3000 cyclist saddled up for Rotary's 14th annual Loop the Lake to raise cash for John Hunter Children's Hospital.
Many arrived at Morisset on Sunday morning to start the 50-kilometre ride in
18 Mar 10 | BEING single and over 45 years of age for many is a choice between loneliness and facing potentially 'dodgy' encounters through the internet.
And that's where RPM (Real People Meeting) may well pro
18 Mar 10 | CHARLTON MP Greg Combet has vowed to track down fraudulent installers who took advantage of the government's home insulation program.
The Federal Opposition has alleged dodgy operators claimed the
18 Mar 10 | GENEROUS donations have helped two Avondale College lecturers improve a historic walk on the Avondale Estate.
The 2.4-kilometre Girls Walk, which begins and ends behind women's residence Ella Boyd
11 Mar 10 | THIEVES who stole a large trampoline from the front yard of a Windermere Park home have been labelled "an embarrassment" by the victim.
"We hope they are very proud of themselves, stealing from chi
11 Mar 10 | WHEN it comes to pushing the boat out for open air activities and education, Avondale is fast becoming recognised as a specialist campus.
The Cooranbong school recently launched a kayak program as
11 Mar 10 | COORANBONG sailor Theo Kuiters is about to turn his 40ft luxury yacht into a medical supply ship and needs help to stock it.
He is calling for unwanted spectacles and donated Bandaids, bandages, dr
11 Mar 10 | KEEN gardener Fran Newman knows as much about growing funds for charities as she does about growing plants.
For four years the green-thumbed pensioner has been participating in Australia's Open Gar
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