Thursday, 13th November
NS
North Sydney Council invites local business owners, commercial property stakeholders and business operators to attend the Let’s Talk Rates Business Breakfast, on Thursday 20 November from 7am to 9am at Hutley Hall, 200 Miller Street in North Sydney. Join council representatives...
Wednesday, 12th November
NBS, NB, PW
Local athletes have been named as finalists in the NSW Sports Awards. Allambie Paralympic athlete Mali Lovell and Invictus Games medal winner David Miln, a biathlon and Nordic skiier from Seaforth, are both in the running for the honour of...
Our community
NB
Aussies owe their lives to his inflatable rescue boat Ken Brown, who was instrumental in the development of the Inflatable Rescue Boat (IRB), known as the ‘rubber duckie’, died on 22 October, aged 92, from prostate cancer. More than 200,000 lives have...
NS
Chatswood’s Jacqueline Close has been awarded for her work preventing falls in the elderly Jacqueline Close was sitting in an airport in Singapore when she received an email she instantly thought was spam. “It was from the Governor General of Australia’s...
Lavender Bay escalators were an exciting novelty One hundred years ago this year, train and ferry passengers had the novel experience of being conveyed between the Lavender Bay foreshore and Glen Street at Milsons Point by escalator. The device wasn’t quite a...
NS
Australia’s first stereo radio station celebrates For 50 years Sydney has been listening to the tunes and chat of 2MBS Fine Music Sydney, broadcast from its St Leonards studio. The popular radio station is powered predominantly by volunteers, and is known...
NS, NB
New Mosman mayor and basketball centre Ann Marie Kimber says there is a lot to be excited about in her role Ann Marie Kimber is not afraid of pulling her sleeves up for a good cause. The mayor, who was popularly...
NBS
ACVVS | Frenchs Forest The aged care volunteer visitor scheme (ACVVS) offers a free service for aged care residents or home care package recipients who are socially isolated. Volunteers are needed to visit individuals from diverse backgrounds or cultural groups who lack...
PW
Tune in and celebrate the volunteer-run FM station Radio Northern Beaches (RNB) has been entertaining the community since 1984, when Radio Manly-Warringah (as it was then known) first went to air. RNB’s first studios were in Narrabeen, then Belrose in 2003,...
NS
There are many people who give up their Christmas lunch to help others. We speak with a firefighter, nurse and counsellor who work on 25 December Warning: this article mentions suicide. If you need someone to talk to, call Lifeline 13...
NS
Michael Morton-Evans reports on his 60 years in media Mosman’s Michael Morton-Evans, 83, trained as a concert pianist but at the age of 19 decided he wasn’t good enough to earn a living and got a job as a cadet with...
PW
Bikes4life | Ingleside If you have a truck, van, ute or trailer and are happy to pick up multiple unwanted bicycles from various Sydney Metro locations and deliver them to the bikes4life workshop at Kimbriki Resource Centre at Ingleside, read on. Bikes4life...