The 150th Anniversary of Policing is being formally launched to residents today, Thursday, May 17, with a large celebration scheduled to take place in Port Macquarie. Anticipated events include a mammoth Street March north along Horton Street with parade Units forming up from 10am. Northern Region Commander, Assistant Commissioner Carlene York, said the march will [...]
Assistance to sports facilities in Port Macquarie to the sum of $1.8 million has been delivered in the Federal Budget. The resurfacing of the Port Macquarie Hockey Association’s field was included in this year’s Budget, through a $320,000 allocation that would wipe their debt to Port Macquarie-Hastings Council. Further funding of $1.5 million will be [...]
An outspoken advocate of the Pacific Highway upgrade, Independent Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott had asked for $3.5 billion to cover half the $7.1 billion unfunded cost of the duplication project to ensure its completion by 2016. The latest federal budget contained $3.56 billion. The funding allocation, however, is dependent on the NSW Government meeting its [...]
A fast food restaurant was robbed at gunpoint in Kempsey last Tuesday. About 9.30pm on May 8, three men entered the restaurant on Belgrave Street, Kempsey, armed with a firearm and knife. The men threatened restaurant employees before two of them jumped the counter and took money from the register. They fled with a sum [...]
Detectives investigating the disappearance of 46-year-old Patricia Petersen last week now believe she might be on the Mid North Coast. It is understood a woman fitting her description was last seen in a Port Macquarie supermarket. Patricia Petersen, 46, was discovered missing by the manager of the North Narrabeen caravan park last Thursday, April 26. [...]
A teenage boy has been seriously injured after being hit by a car at Port Macquarie on Sunday afternoon. About 1:20pm on April 29 a white Mercedes C180 was travelling east on Gordon Street when it was involved in a collision with a 16-year-old boy. Police have been told the boy was running across the [...]
Firies attended to a house fire in Cecil Baldwin Cl, West Kempsey about 9.30pm on Thursday night, April 26. The house was engulfed in smoke. Officers found the sole occupant, a 21-year-old male, unconscious on the bathroom floor with the shower running. Fire crews carried the victim from the house and began resuscitation attempts. The [...]
Independent Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott has slammed the NSW Government’s decision to close two community-based mental health services in Port Macquarie, Ellimatta House and Karawa Cottage, saying the closure had shocked the local community and increased the urgent need for a Mental Health Services Plan for the Hastings, However, according to Port Macquarie MP Leslie [...]
Heads were bowed across the region to remember those lost during times of war on Anzac Day yesterday, April 25. Ex-servicemen and women in Port Macquarie assembled at the Town Green War Memorial at 5.15am prior to the 5.30am commencement of the dawn service. The Commemorative March also formed at the Southern end of Horton [...]
Three Port Macquarie community mental health organisations are discovering art therapy could hold the key to mental health and wellbeing. Hastings Mental Health Network, Hastings Mental Health Support Group and New Horizons are all introducing Art of Life projects which aim to assist people experiencing depression, anxiety and other mental health conditions. One initiative will [...]
