7/01/2009 | A MAN beaten and kicked, and left lying unconscious, says that kind of thing would never have happened when he was growing up in the Great Lakes. The attack also highlights the underlying hostility towards tourists by some locals.
7/01/2009 | NEXT month’s stats will bring the summer into focus, but everyone from tourism officials to hotel managers to sweaty motorists thinks the twin towns are bursting at the seams.
64 Forster holidays and counting
7/01/2009 | SIXTY-FOUR years ago Clarrie Higgingbottom make the six-hour journey from Cessnock to Tuncurry on a sand and gravel road that was the Lakes Way, all to join a queue to get into Forster.
Few showers.

Few showers. 21°C - 26°C


Kayakers pit-stop on our doorstep
7/01/2009 | TWO guys paddling from Byron to Bondi with little experience weren’t thrilled with last week’s headlines. ‘Shark horror: snorkeller dead, kayakers menaced’ – Sydney Morning Herald.
Race to be part of triathlon
7/01/2009 | THE Manning River Summer Festival Triathlon is on this weekend and there’s still time to enter. Official entries close on Friday and after this a $15 late fee applies if you want to race on Sunday.
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A PEN stroke on a dotted line has given a Tuncurry music-fest the chance to double its ...
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