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Central Coast Council will host a four-part series aimed at looking how innovation could improve the region and generate local solutions. The first of the four sessions, Big and Bold…
Out & About
Mardi Gras to include a Central Coast Pride float
The Central Coast will have a presence like never before at this year’s Sydney Mardi Gras Festival, with a Coastal Twist community float set to take part in the parade…
Ultimate Gamer Tournament returns
Central Coast Council is inviting young gamers to take part in its 2020 Ultimate Gamer Tournament. Open to local gamers aged 12-24, the six round tournament held across the coast…
Bush fire assistance platform Spend With Us created on the Coast
A Fountaindale resident has launched Spend With Us, a new online directory and marketplace for small businesses in rural areas that have been impacted by the bushfires and drought. Spend…
Four days of Chemical CleanOut events
Central Coast Council is once again encouraging residents to clear any unwanted hazardous chemicals in homes, garages and sheds, to be correctly disposed of at the next bi-annual Chemical CleanOut…
Woy Woy Philosophers Society
Seventh Meeting: Celebration of the Stoics You have to hand it to Thommo, he really is a stoic fellow. Not only is he a long-suffering Mariners supporter, but he showed…
Movie Review
THE GRUDGE Director: Takashi Shimizu Let it not be said the CCN movie reviews do not cover all genres. In fact, there are two motivations for reviewing The Grudge –…
National Pet Adoption Day event in Gosford
Residents across the former Gosford LGA are being encouraged to learn more about Central Coast based animal rescue groups as part of a National Pet Adoption Day initiative by PETstock…
Giant funnel web spider welcomed
A giant funnel web spider handed in this week to the Australian Reptile Park has reinforced the need for Central Coast residents to remain vigilant in looking out for the…
Six seniors have their stories included in state wide compilation
[Terrigal] Six Central Coast seniors have had their stories included in the annual compilation, Seniors’ Stories, now available online and at the region’s libraries. Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast…
Landcare groups will share almost $35,000
Three northern Landcare groups will share almost $35,000 between them in grants from the Shortland Communities Environment Program. Budgewoi Island Landcare received $4,968 for removal of weeds such as asparagus…
Girls’ lemonade stand raises $152 for Wires
Each Australia Day, Ms Jenny Doak’s daughters ask if they can make a lemonade stand at their Pop’s house in Woy Woy. “This year was different though because they wanted…
Hearts set to flutter when fourth instalment of Love Lanes returns to Wyong
[Update: The Love Lanes Festival has been postponed due to weather conditions] The Wyong business community is getting ready to feel the love with the fourth instalment of Central Coast…
The Final Test opens new season at Little Theatre
Woy Woy Little Theatre is set to open its first play of the 2020 season at Peninsula Theatre on February 14. “In Peter’s case, it was when the removal men…
Family orchestra at Troubadour
The second concert in the Troubadour Folk Club’s Fabulous February series will feature the Highly Strung Rock and Roll Orchestra. Troubadour president Mr Michael Fine said the family orchestra was…
Environment group seeks volunteers for festival
The Peninsula Environment Group is seeking volunteers to help with its Woytopia sustainable living festival to be held in September. Event manager Mr Julian Bowker said the group was looking…
Movie Review – 1917
1917 has received wide acclaimed for its bold, immersive film-making style – the entire movie presents as a single, continuous scene – but falls well short of the heights achieved…
Pink tongued blue tongue lizard discovered
If there’s one thing we know about blue tongue lizards, it’s that their tongues are blue. But not always. Keepers at the Australian Reptile Park were stunned recently when a…
Woy Woy Philosophers Society – Meeting #6. Epicurus (Can he really cure us?)
In the old, stone craft beer halls of Ancient Greece, late at night as the fire burnt low, the few remaining souls would join together in song.It was a melancholy…
Yellow-footed rock-wallaby joey takes first steps
In true blue Aussie fashion, The Australian Reptile Park’s resident yellow-footed rock-wallaby joey took her first ever hops just in time for Australia Day. Dorito had a rough start at…