Karen Brown, President of Port Macquarie Friends of Library, and Leanne Wright, Book Club Co-ordinator, are encouraging entries in the Favourite Four Competiton which closes on Friday, May 18. Be creative, maybe choose your ‘Favourite 4’ cookery, gardening, craft or sport books if you are not a fiction reader – there’s a 25 or less [...]
One of television’s most recognisable faces and leading man in the popular series Stingers, Peter Phelps, will be entertaining audiences at the Glasshouse this May in David Williamson’s superb play Let the Sunshine. Phelps has been enter-taining Australian audiences for over two decades and starred in hit TV shows including All Saints, Underbelly, Rescue Special [...]
This year’s Port Macquarie-Hastings and Kempsey Heritage Festival was a great success, with events held right across the region. The weather was kind to most of the scheduled events, including the opening held at Douglas Vale Homestead. The Port Macquarie Historical Society organised two history walks which were very well attended. The society’s volunteer guide [...]
Music industry professionals, press, recording agents and the public throughout Northern QLD have given all their support to local Mackay Band ‘Chasing the Jeffrey’â€. And now they are heading to Port Macquarie. On May 10 and 11 they will be playing at the Port Macquarie Hotel and on May 12 they will be heading to [...]
94 year old Ron Walesby launched his memoirs in the form of a 365 page book Like Snow on the Desert in front of 75 guests at the Hastings District Aero Club at Port Macquarie Airport on Friday evening. The book title is taken from a poem by Omar Khayyam about the fleeting moments of [...]
The Hastings Pipe Band pulled off a great performance at the 108th Maclean Highland Gathering this Easter gaining an overall 6th place out of 15 competing Pipe Bands, half of which had travelled interstate to compete in the East Coast Pipe Band Championships held here each year. The highlight of the day was in being [...]
On Sunday, April 22, The Yoga Shala will hold a Charity Day in conjunction with yoga studios around the world called Practice for Compassion. The Port Macquarie event will raise funds for the Hastings Women and Children’s Refuge, an organisation committed to supporting women and children experiencing domestic violence. The community can help to raise [...]
Australia is in for one big treat from Boy & Bear as they look to thank their fans for what has been a year of big journeys and greater accomplishments for the Sydney quintet. From Adelaide to Albury, Brisbane to Bunbury, Cairns to Canberra, Boy & Bear will be dropping into every corner of the [...]
Friday, April 20, The Macquarie Hotel will host Sunset Riot for their last Port Macquarie show before the Sydney rockers embark on their second tour of the United States where they will join Slash, The Darkness, Mega death and Rob Zombie to name a few at the music festival, Rocklahoma. This will also be the [...]
The Wauchope bonsai group’s next meeting is on Saturday, April 14, commencing at 10 am. This month the group will meet in the Rotary Youth Hall, Oxley Lane, Wauchope (next door to our normal hall). This month’s meeting will feature a display of unusually styled trees to go with this month’s presentation on bonsai styles. [...]
