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Willoughby City Council is proposing to reclassify the land it owns at Northbridge Plaza car park from Community to Operational Land and is seeking feedback from the community. This applies to the council-owned car park behind Northbridge Plaza on Eastern...
Friday, 8th August
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Street cleaning, park maintenance, library programs and community events may need to be scaled back in North Sydney without increased revenue. Infrastructure such as roads, parks, community centres, seawalls and stormwater systems could also deteriorate. In early 2025, Council applied to...
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Long heralded as a bastion of sporting success, Bally Boys has stepped into the spotlight in recent years with soaring academic achievements. What is this non-selective school getting so right? Catherine Lewis reports. When the first young men tumbled through the...
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Avalon’s Barrenjoey High has stepped into the spotlight in recent years, soaring up the HSC rankings and doubling its number of top band results. What is this non-selective school – and its new principal – getting so right? By Catherine Lewis When...
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Bill Woods brought joy to others, playing the piano until he was 103 years old Bill Woods’s appearance on ABC TV’s The Piano is special for many reasons. Not only does it represent his life-long love of playing piano, but it’s...
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North Sydney Boys has now topped the HSC school rankings two years in a row, and the students are looking to complete the hat-trick. Alex Driscoll goes behind the scenes as Year 12 trial exams loom closer BY ALEX DRISCOLL As an...
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In a world where hash tags rule the internet, influencers are on the money. Men’s health advocate, model and athlete Lachy McLean gives Editor in Chief Michelle Giglio a lesson in content creation. #hot. #hotmodel. #hotmalemodel. The world of social media...
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Maritime history enthusiasts celebrate Maritime history buffs and classic boat enthusiasts have this year been celebrating the 1925 arrival of the Norwegian Halvorsen family to Australia – a migrant and business success story. Lars Halvorsen came to Sydney, followed soon after by...
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Josie McSkimming’s memoir Gutsy Girls is a unique perspective on her sister, poet Dorothy Porter Australia lost a literary icon when poet Dorothy Porter died. Josie McSkimming lost a beloved sister. Dorothy had fought breast cancer since 2004 before she died...
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Avalon’s Boomerang Bags branch celebrates 10 years of sewing BY ALEX DRISCOLL Like many volunteer organisations, Avalon’s branch of Boomerang Bags is held together by the sense of community created by the participants. “I would say that for some of the participants, ‘Tuesday...
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Sydney-based artist Janet Laurence has been announced as the Professional Artist Prize winner of the 2025 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, for her chromogenic print artwork, Moss Water Ice Temperature Rising, winning $35,000 in Australia’s highest-value professional artist prize for...
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A former local refused to let health battles define him at Balmoral’s annual ocean swim BY CATHERINE LEWIS When the Balmoral Swim for Cancer was held earlier this year, one swimmer took to the ocean to prove that Becker’s Muscular Dystrophy (MD)...