Down in the Garden: How to Create a Fragrant Native Garden
When many of us think of a perfumed garden, it is easy for the imagination to drift to the introduced cottage flower staples of roses, gardenias, frangipanis and lavender. These…
Out & About
Book Review – Homeland Elegies
Author: Ayad AkhtarPublisher: Tinder Press I hadn’t heard of Ayad Akhtar before reading this book. He is a screenwriter, a novelist and has written award winning plays. He was born…
Self-publishing the way to go
Writing a book can be challenging but Kincumber resident, Chris Dillon, believes the writing is the easiest part. Following a bad experience when publishing his book professionally, the 87-year-old is…
Chelsea brings country to the Coast
Local singer-songwriter Chelsea Berman has brought country to the Coast with a new EP titled Can You Just Not, released last month. The Tascott resident released the five-track EP after…
Book launch at Regional Gallery
Multi-award-winning author and academic, Professor Grace Karskens, will launch her latest book, People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia, at the Gosford Regional Gallery on March 25. The…
Watercolours on show in Easter exhibition
With Easter on its way, the Central Coast Watercolour Society is encouraging community members to put its Easter Showcase Exhibition into their diaries. The exhibition will showcase some of the…
Camel racing at Gosford showground
Due to popular demand, Gosford showground will host its second camel racing event, just in time for Easter, on April 2. The family day out will include six camel races,…
Community garden welcomes all comers
SWAMP or Sustainable Wetlands Agricultural Makers Project is a community garden in Tuggerah run by locals who are promoting sustainable gardening, and fostering the connection between health and the land,…
Autumn equinox celebration at the SWAMP
The Sustainable Wetlands Agriculture Makers Project (SWAMP) will hold an Autumn equinox celebration on Sunday, March 21. Cassie, one of the community group’s founding volunteer members and a Nature Connection…
Guide Dogs fundraiser at Bateau Bay
Guide Dogs provide such a vital service in the community, but it is a service that is costly, with every service ready dog costing $50,000. The Guide Dogs Central Coast…
Club Wyong RSL re-launched as Club Wyong
A year after a simple Expression of Interest led to an historic decision which ensured the future of Club Wyong RSL, the club will officially re-launch on Wednesday, March 17,…
An invitation to a day of collaboration, connection and community building
The Community Environment Network (CEN) will hold its Annual Forum at the Ourimbah Campus of Newcastle University on Sunday. March 21, with the theme, The Future is Local. CEN Chair,…
Bright Nights @ The Entrance during March
For anyone in the Entrance who is seeing funny lights near the waterfront, no it is not alien activities, it is Bright Nights @ The Entrance. It is a free…
Bright Nights at The Entrance
For anyone in The Entrance who is seeing funny lights near the waterfront, no it is not alien activities, it is Bright Nights @ The Entrance. It is a free…
Community Visitors Scheme provides a lifeline of connection
Lee is 103 years old, legally blind and has lived in aged care at Killarney Vale for 12 years. She has knitted and donated more than 2,000 trauma teddies for…
Down in the garden: It’s Autumn
As the chill rolls in on the Coast, it can be easy for beginner gardeners to think that gardening is slowing down and there won’t be much to do. The…
Coast photographer features in Sydney exhibit
Local creative, Sylvia Keays, is the photographer behind a collection of portraits of inspirational Central Coast and Sydney women, which will be on display in Sydney’s World Square on March…
Dancing fun for the over 50s
Thanks to Francine Redstone and Tom Brennan, for the past 15 years, Central Coast seniors have been boogying and jiving every week at the 50+ Leisure and Learning Centre in…
West Gosford author’s Grand life
What started as a quest to write a bucket list has now turned into an internationally selling book for Patrick Griffin. The West Gosford local recently released The Grand Life:…
Twilight Soiree at Japanese Gardens
Crestani Scholarships Ltd is inviting the Central Coast community to attend its sixth annual Twilight Soirée musical event on Sunday, March 21, at the Gosford Regional Gallery. Ticket sales will…