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 | 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.
1/10/2008 | A SMALL group of Tea Gardens Hawks Nest residents have joined together to fix the Myall River.
The Myall River Action Group was formed at a meeting on Saturday, September 20.
1/10/2008 | GRAFFITI buster Ted Bickford said residents are failing to tell him if they spot graffiti around the twin towns.
After a bad hit on Friday, September 19, Ted spent three days cleaning up the mess created by visitors to the town.
1/10/2008 | WHILE some were angry to see Smiths Lakes opened by persons unknown last week, local resident Colin Nicholls couldn’t be happier.
He reckons a group of locals took the issue into their own hands out of frustration.
1/10/2008 | COUNCILLOR Jan McWilliams was elected to the top job of mayor yesterday, making her only the second woman to join the Great Lakes' mayoral ranks.
What was expected to be a tussle between Cr McWilliams and Tea Gardens councillor Len Roberts, proved a non-event.
1/10/2008 | ARE your ready to dive into the long weekend?
Or maybe you've already landed on our turf ready to make the most of the school holidays by sharing our patch of paradise.
24/09/2008 | IT was a lesson in local government but it’s really got eight-year-old Kacy Pollard thinking.
Each day, after the school bus drops her off, she has to face the prospect of crossing the busy Lakes Way before the Kenrose St turn off on the way to Forster Keys.
24/09/2008 | SCHOOL leaders and their principals gathered last week to thank retiring Great Lakes mayor John Chadban for his remarkable contribution to education.
24/09/2008 | THE films chosen to feature in this year’s Forster Film Festival are big on heart, not budget, says director Greg Smith.
The festival will take place on the October long weekend and films have come from across the globe.
24/09/2008 | IT has been a frustrating few days for volunteer firefighters.
From Saturday they were kept on their toes with up to 15 call outs across the Great Lakes. Some were major fires requiring the attention of up to 10 local brigades.
24/09/2008 | LIKE many of his fellow motorists Tuncurry’s Robert Williams is hopping mad about the high price of fuel in the twin towns and says we are being ripped off.
“It can be up to 12 cents a litre cheaper in Taree. I love this town but we’re getting ripped off and it’s just not right.”
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