Surf icon Bernard ‘Midget’ Farrelly immortalised on Black Rock   A new outdoor sculpture has been finished in Palm Beach. Under the talented hands of Cromer stonemason Newton Bishop, the figure of surfing legend Bernard ‘Midget’ Farrelly, dubbed the ‘Godfather’ of Australian surfing,...

Discover North Sydney’s Chinese-Australian history Tracing the history of Chinese people in Australia is sometimes referred to as ‘tracking the dragon’. Largely ignored beyond the story of gold mining, Chinese-Australian history has been more thoroughly researched in the past 30 years....

The Corso took its name from a famous carnival in Rome It is well known that Manly’s Corso was named by Henry Gilbert Smith, when planning his residential and recreational town, after the Via del Corso in Rome. But the question...

The Mini-Mos, Australia’s longest consecutively run community event, celebrated an outstanding year with over 2100 runners participating, including 15 elite athletes, showcasing the community’s enduring spirit and love for running. In the 10K races, Aynslee Minnaar emerged victorious in the women’s...

Davidson High School will be hosting a special Season of Performing Arts with two days of wonderful entertainment Year 12 students Nathan Barlow and Courtney Drake are giggling with excitement. Since Year 7, they have spent over 100 hours studying and...

Disney’s Camp Rock is coming to Chatswood Ingrid Bass, founder of the Umbrella School of Music, believes that everyone should have the opportunity to express themselves through music. She is now thrilled that Disney has approved a one-act production of Camp...

This year’s Balmoral Burn has raised $1.5 million so far to continue the Humpty Dumpty Foundation’s important work of providing Australian hospitals and health services with much-needed, and often lifesaving, medical equipment and healthcare initiatives. The fundraising commenced on 24 May 2024...

Illustrated cards were popular in the 1900s Cigarette cards were the forerunners of today’s trading cards, be they Pokémon or sports cards. Cigarette cards first emerged in America in 1875, after packet ‘stiffeners’ were recognised by tobacco companies for their marketing...

North Shore seniors can keep moving with dance In a report published in Sports Medicine in January 2024, dance was found to be ‘equivalent or superior to other physical activity interventions to improve psychological wellbeing and cognitive capacity’. According to the report,...

Twenty five years of market freshness Since 1999, local and regional food producers have been getting up well before dawn to bring Northside Produce Market the freshest food from places such as Orange, the Riverina, Central Tablelands and Southern Highlands. Twenty-five years...