The Road to Peace screening
The Kadam Sharawa Tibetan Buddhist Centre will hold a movie screening of The Road to Peace at Kincumber Mountain on Sunday, September 7. Celebrating 15 years on the Coast, the…
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Bingo Mountain issue resolved according to council
The landfill site adjoining Mangrove Mountain Golf Course will cease operating – plus a new golf course will tee off – within the next 10 years, following the ruling by…
Gold and silver awards presented
Brisbane Water Breakfast Toastmasters Club has announced the presentation of awards to two of its club members, Jeanette Anderson and Scott Johnston. Brisbane Water Breakfast Toastmasters Club public relations officer…
Is justice really given to the highest bidder?
Bingo Hill (Coast Community News, August 20), it just doesn’t add up. The letter by Don Rowe gives rise to a number of questions. I have been attending the court…
Central Coast Tourism need to write off $75,900 following festival collapse
The 18-month long investigation into the collapse of the Peats Ridge Festival has come to a halt, with creditors unlikely to see any of the $1.6 million believed to be…
Greens candidate announced
Kate da Costa has been announced as the Central Coast Greens candidate for the State seat of Gosford. Ms da Costa’s campaign was launched by Greens MLC John Kaye…
$10.3 million grant to council
New payments to Gosford Council are being made under the Australian Government’s Financial Assistance Grant programme. he Federal Government is providing $2.3 billion to local councils nationwide in 2014-15 alone,…
Peaceful protest to secure Bambara’s future
A large group of community members gathered outside the State Member for Gosford’s office at Woy Woy on Monday, September 1, to request that Mr Chris Holstein honour his Government’s…
Four from four Semi Finals won
The Gosford Kariong Club won four from four Semi Finals over the weekend of August 30 and 31 as the 2014 Central Coast Junior Rugby League competitions head toward their…
Residents protest government policies
Hundreds of Central Coast residents marched through Gosford on Saturday, August 30, in protest against the policies of the Abbott Government. “We had around 350 people join us…
National Threatened Species Week
The Australian Walkabout Wildlife Park is celebrating National Threatened Species Day in the fi rst week of September and is encouraging children to bring in a picture of an animal…
Harpsichords a feature at Crossroads festival
The seventh annual Crossroads festival was held over the weekend of August 23 and 24 with the highlight of the weekend, ‘Heavenly Harpsichords’ at Greenway Chapel. The concert began with…
Labor candidate for Terrigal announced
Firefighter Jeff Sundstrom has been preselected as the Labor candidate for Terrigal for the upcoming state election to be held on March 28 next year. been selected by the…
Rash NBN decision to create a “real digital divide”
Three quarters of the region is scheduled to receive the compromised NBN broadband infrastructure and only one quarter, the world class full fibre infrastructure, following an announcement of the rollout…
ABC Local Radio to come back to the Coast
ABC Local Radio has confirmed it will be moving back to the Central Coast after a period of being based in the ABC’s Ultimo studio following the closure of the…
Mission to help Tibetan refugees
Avoca Beach Dental’s oral h y g i e n i s t Cassandra Jenkins is raising money to take part in a volunteer mission to provide dental aid to…
NBN connection issues
As NBN will not connect our home phones, will they also cut our public phones? Will everybody have to get a mobile phone? Many poor people cannot afford a mobile…
Court decision welcomed
The recent consent orders brought down in the Land and Environment Court of NSW regarding the landfill and Memorial Golf Course at Mangrove Mountain bring certainty to all parties, according…
Phoebe wins final
The Southern Central Coast public speaking fi nal was recently held at St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School. The competition was won by St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School captain Phoebe Seymour….
Quarry protest should be reconsidered
The recent furore about the proposal by Rexdor Pty Ltd to continue recycling materials at the Kincumber Quarry, a local icon, is quite disappointing yet so typical. On one side…