8/10/2008 | WITH a motto like ‘Fun, Frivolity, Fair Play’ the Tuncurry Forster Football Club is sure to put on a show for its 2008 Golden Balls Weekend.
8/10/2008 | OLIVIA Halicek is the toast of Forster Aquatic Swimming Club after a stunning medal winning performance at the Australian Short Course Championships in Melbourne.
8/10/2008 | FORSTER’S tennis champion, Tony Harkin will take on the world’s mature pros this week as he competes in the Seniors World Team Tennis Championships in Turkey.
8/10/2008 | BOTH young and old, along with beginners and old hands, hundreds have signed up to compete during the Forster Triathlon and Multisport Festival.
8/10/2008 | IT was a sea of colour as lifesavers young and old descended on Forster for the Professionals Weekend of Surf. From Towradgi in the Illawarra to Urunga in the North lifesavers came to compete.
8/10/2008 | MARGARET Smith says the clay court recently completed at Tuncurry is the only one in Australia built to European standards.
And the plan is to build more and turn the twin towns into a centre of excellence for clay court training.
8/10/2008 | TEA Gardens will lose another GP when Dr David Sutherland leaves later this month.
Dr Sutherland is leaving the Myall Coast Health and Medical Centre to move to Braidwood near Canberra.
8/10/2008 | A LOCAL p-plater has lashed out at public ridicule of his fellow drivers.
Great Lakes College student Jacob Leung wrote to the Advocate saying he was 'officially over' the way p-platers are treated in the community.
8/10/2008 | FERRY drivers are concerned the state of the Myall River and the silting up of the entrances will destroy their business.
8/10/2008 | GREAT Lakes College teacher Marion Johnson will embark on a study tour of what she calls the ‘mecca of theatre and drama’.
She was one of only 28 public school and TAFE teachers across the State to receive a 2008 NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship.
8/10/2008 | THE mother of a girl found dead in their Hawks Nest home did not try to resuscitate the child because ants and black vomit were in the seven-year-old’s mouth, court documents reveal.
8/10/2008 | MARK January 17, 2009, on your calendar because president of the Tuncurry Forster Jockey Club Garry McQuillan reckons the day will see the biggest social event in the history of the twin towns.
8/10/2008 | IT has been a busy month for police with a spike in break-and-enters at holiday apartments, homes and business houses.
September 24 was particularly bad with 14 break and enters on that one night.
8/10/2008 | “LOOKS like they’ve found that girl’s body,” I heard, and just slumped.
It turns out the corpse found in a cove at Dubrovnik, Croatia, is probably not missing Melbourne traveller Britt Lapthorne – it’s too decomposed. But whatever happens from here is a tragedy, and will be a bigger tragedy if we’re too scared to travel.
1/10/2008 | MANNING Cricket Association is unlikely to press ahead with plans for a mid-week 15/15 competition this season.
The possibility of playing a mid-week twilight competition was raised at an association meeting held last month.
1/10/2008 | FORSTER Surf Lifesaving Club Turtles made history at New Lambton pool last week when its men and women winter swimmers attended the first combined Australian Winter Swim Championships.
1/10/2008 | THERE will be an impressive line up, including two Olympic silver medallists, at the Great Lakes Sailing Club’s annual Wildcat Regatta this weekend.
Also competing will be two world champions, over five national champions and two extreme adventure racers along with many aspiring champions, local challengers and anyone else who has a catamaran that floats.
1/10/2008 | THE Old Bar Festival attracted more than 10,000 people to the coastal town last year and once again rugby union will provide entertainment this weekend with the Old Bar Clams’ Super 10s tournament a special attraction on Saturday.
1/10/2008 | NOT many people would have one of their paintings hung in Parliament House.
For Tuncurry resident Jessica Betz, it’s a reality.
1/10/2008 | THE Big Buzz was blaring at the weekend as local indie rock group, the Hydrafonics took out the local Battle of the Bands title.
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