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Article Farewell and Thank You! The end of an era. Jenny Webster's final days as owner and manager of the Karuah post office and newsagency mark the end of 56 years of Webster family involvement... (1 comment)
Article Help Us Save Fame Cove Stop land clearing at Fame Cove / Fame Mountain! Residents of North Arm Cove / Bundabah / Pindimar / Tea Gardens / Hawks Nest, if you wish to save native... (2 comments)
Article Moorings Under Threat Back in January, I posted an article here about a letter received from the Director of Maritime Services which had been sent out to a large number of mooring owners...
Article submission A Duty of Care - Burn-outs ā€œOur community is our customer and is at the centre of everything we do.ā€ MidCoast Council A modern, well-ordered democratic society is about people at all levels in society and... (2 comments)
Article Watch Out - Vandals About!! My car was attacked overnight or early this morning. Both the windscreen and one side window were smashed. The offender came down my driveway to do the dirty. I have...
Article Are Our Swing Moorings Under Threat? The letter from Transport NSW below was sent to me before Christmas. I think it likely that every non-commercial swing mooring owner in Port Stephens, and possibly all of NSW... (1 comment)
Article Fame Cove Land Campaign Moves a Step Closer Late last week we received a message from the MidCoast Council that is has been successful in its latest case against Tea Garden Farms Pty Ltd. This concerns the land...
Article Pickleball Demo A Big Success Saturday saw the very successful introduction of Pickleball to the village. Around 18 curious locals turned up to the tennis court to take instruction from Judy Montgomery from Myall Park...
Article When you look out the window................... ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦..what do you see? A beautiful, diverse and unpolluted environment? Housing, good jobs and a high standard of living for all? Poverty and discrimination in decline? A proud, young multicultural...
Article How we love you Mr Commonwealth Bank! Dear CBA Retail Complaints Specialist, I thank you kindly for responding to my complaints about my poor experiences at my local branch of the Commonwealth Bank. Relegating my issues down...
Article Look Out. Snakes About! This may be a bad year for snakes. The picture, taken yesterday, shows a dead tiger snake (clearly run over) at the junction of Water Street and Cove B. A... (1 comment)
Article The Unexplained Returns! Readers may remember an article I wrote in August describing a set of very odd and very large footprints Cove residents had discovered along the foreshore. The prints were huge...
Article Rewiring North Arm Cove On behalf of our community, we have made an application to participate in the Rewiring Australia initiative, inspired and promoted by Australian/American engineer and entrepreneur, Saul Griffiths. To make this...
Article Are You Sleeping Soundly?? Strange things happen in the wee hours. I bumped into a long-term NAC resident a week or so back and, in the conversation, he got out his phone and showed...
Article Too Entitled Have you noticed? Everyone in a job today has a grand title - Vice-President, General Manager, Chief Executive Officer, Director, Executive Manager. Sometimes even the ā€˜realā€™ people (those that do...
Article Harmonograph This first image was created on a harmonograph (second picture) which I built mainly out of bits and pieces in my garage. Fascinating to watch the device as the image...
Article Postal Pandemic I ordered a book from Amazon Australia on April 22nd for a May 4th birthday present. It was received by Australia Post for shipping on April 28th with an expected... (1 comment)
Article Update 4 - Fame Cove (and related) Infamy In recent days we have been made aware of new developments concerning Mr Philip Dong Fang Lee ā€“ the owner of the Fame Cove property - and his wife, Xiaobei...
Article Just Another Day In North Arm Cove NAC in the spotlight yet again. Mr Philip Dong Fang Lee, our famed Fame Cove neighbour, grabs the headlines: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-24/nsw-star-casino-gambler-spent-11ā€¦ And Daniel Johns, Silverchair frontman, adds to the excitement: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-24/silverchair-frontman-daniel-johnā€¦...
Article Buyers Beware!! There is evidence of what I think are deceptive, and possibly illegal, trade practices being conducted by Australian internet retailers. They are advertising for the sale of goods with delivery...
Article It's A Dangerous World! Gardening this week. A risky pursuit I try to avoid at the best of times. Bitten by some cowardly little bastard thing hiding in the grass. The doctor thinks it...
Article Covid booster shots wait reduced For your information, the wait period for a covid booster shot has been reduced from 6 months to 5 months. See: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-12/booster-shots-five-month-intervaā€¦ A Christmas bonus maybe for some who are...
Article Sanderling Avenue Development I expect that many people in our village will have watched the ABC For Corners program broadcast on November 8 which reported on the proposed $100-million development for at least... (1 comment)
Article Update 3 - Fame Cove Infamy This article from Len Yearsley For your information, below is a letter sent to Hon Matt Kean, Treasurer and Minister for Environment and Energy, on behalf of our Sub Committee...
Article Covid in the Cove Attached (see below) from HNE Health for your information. Tony Hann
Article Update 2 - Fame Cove Infamy Chanel 9 investigative reporter Josh Bavas spent 2 hours on Tuesday with NACCAi's Fame Cove Action Group team leader Len Yearsley in preparation for a Current Affair report on Fame...
Article Update - Fame Cove Infamy Readers of this website will know that a small action group of local residents has, for some 15 years, been watching the steady environmental desecration of the 400-hectare farmland holding... (1 comment)
Article Noisy News We have been warned by the MCC to expect loud noises coming from the Fame Cove property next week. This could go on for some time and is part of...
Article Some Covid Clarification for Boaties and Roadies Some more information for boaties and roadies in an attempt to clarify the Hunter lockdown situation from Len Yearsley. Len was advised by Charlie Dunkley, Waterways boating officer, that access...
Article Coronavirus Confusion The current situation with the lockdown on our border has caused us some confusion. It used to be, and I think still is, that self-isolation is only required if you...
Article Fame Cove Developments From Len Yearsley, Chairman, Fame Cove Sub Committee, NACCAi The NACCAi sub- committee met (2/8/2021) early this week. Midcoast Council officers Adam Matlawski, the Major Assessment & Regulatory Services Manager...
Article Anyone For Tennis? The Tennis Club committee held a meeting last Thursday to discuss and resolve a few issues in preparation for the new financial year: The AGM will be held on August...
Article Land Valuation - Worth a Fight? I wrote some notes on land valuation in an article on this site in June last year - https://northarmcove.nsw.au/generalinfo/more-land-valuation . At that time, the Valuer General was busy concluding the... (1 comment)
Article NAC Development - too much, too little or just right? We can imagine that early settlers came to the Cove and loved its isolation and back-to-nature character. We have heard that some later packed their bags when the streets were...
Article Current Affair on Fame Cove 2 For those of you who missed last night's Current Affair broadcast, this link is for you: https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/chinese-born-aussie-billionaiā€¦ Tony Hann
Article Fame Cove - Who Cares? A question was asked at Saturdayā€™s residentsā€™ meeting as to why NACCAi is involved in the developments at Fame Cove if they really have nothing to do with us and...
Article NAC Tennis Club AGM Sixteen tennis club members assembled under the Hall shelter on Saturday for the Annual General Meeting. It was a cold and windy event but a sucess nonetheless with the re-election...
Article Are You Interested In Tennis? The NAC Tennis Club AGM will be held under the Hall shelter at 3:00 pm this Saturday, Aug 22nd. If you are at all interested in playing tennis at any...
Article Tennis Meeting July 4th Fourteen club members attended a tennis meeting held at the court last Saturday. Some of the main points of discussion were: Play - continues to be permitted under strict COVID...
Article More on Land Valuation Some notes on land valuation: The council prepares its budget, then theoretically calculates the return from rates it requires to fulfil that budget. It spreads the rate charges out in... (1 comment)

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