Saturday, 8th November
NB
Narrabeen Sports High School Year 10 student Maiia Salbieva is the youngest public school student to sit an HSC exam at the age of 13, having just completed HSC Advanced Maths. She started at the school at the young age...
Friday, 7th November
NB
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles has appointed Jason King as the Club’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mr King’s appointment follows the resignation of Tony Mestrov, who will step down from the role on 19 December. Mr King is a premiership-winning Manly...
Our community
NBS, NB
Ignoring the debacle that began about 40 years ago when our local councils mistakenly (or willfully) planted hundreds of Cook Pines, Norfolk Island Pines have become synonymous with our coastal landscape. It is a moot point as to where the...
NB
Imagine an endless night sky, blanketed in a million stars. No ambient light and no sound… apart from the padding of feet on sand and the in and out of your own breath. Now, imagine you’re part of a pack...
NB
Northern Beaches local, wildlife photographer and prolific children’s author, Jan Latta, has published Doing it My Way, about her life-changing adventures travelling the world alone and reinventing herself in the face of adversity. Wildlife photographer and children’s author, Jan Latta, was...
PW
After growing up on the Northern Beaches, falling in love, raising a family, and then working locally, Mel and Nathan Wellings decided to give back to their community in the form of a 24-hour row! The Wellings are a family of...
NBS
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more Northern Beaches story then that of Tom Jordan and Mitch Thompson. The pair met at The Seaforth Kindergarten at age three, played for Seaforth Football Club for years and attended schools in the area,...
NS
North Sydney Council’s archive holds an unusual piece of local history – three locks of hair taken from renowned children’s author and illustrator May Gibbs (1877-1969), one as a baby and two as an adult. The very fact that human hair...
NS
After being diagnosed with an adenoid cystic carcinoma in her voice box, Lily Gubbay now spends her days representing the support and community that she first needed herself in 2015. Having stepped down from full-time work to reduce the stress she...
PW
Christian Barwell’s organisation Up&Over offers hundreds of teenagers and adults with disabilities on the Northern Beaches the opportunity to build confidence and create meaningful relationships. One take away from the pandemic is that we are now all aware of how socialisation...
NBS, NB
For more than 20 years, commencing in 1911, Manly held a Venetian Carnival as a fundraiser for the local hospital and other causes. It was a great success, with huge crowds attending over what became typically a two-week period in...
NS
With their Aunty Time workshops, Aunties Caroline and Susan are sharing Indigenous knowledge with young people in Mosman. Through their teachings, Aunties Caroline and Susan are shaping a space for young people to create, express themselves and listen to acquire the...