Thursday, 28th August
NB, PW
The opening of a BreastScreen permanent service in Mona Vale means that around 16,000 women aged 50-74 from the Upper Northern Beaches area now have access to the service within 20 minutes of their home. Around 1000 women have already had...
Wednesday, 27th August
NS, NBS, PW
It’s set to be a rush in the city this weekend as runners take part in the TCS Sydney Marathon and other events on 30 to 31 August. Organisers expect that 35,000 runners will take on the 42km course, which starts...
Our community
NB, NBS
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...
NS
Do you want to go to the library but is not easy for you? Do you or a loved one have difficulty getting to there? North Sydney Stanton Library has the solution: the new Bus to Books service. Bus to Books...
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...
NS, NBS
Do you know someone who deserves to be recognised and supported for the positive impact they make on the local community or environment? If yes, you can have your say now! Westfield Local Heroes has opened entries for community members to...
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...
NS
Four participants were selected as winners of the 2022 ‘Connect, Collaborate, Celebrate’, a Willoughby art exhibition set aside for people living with disability, experiencing social isolation or at risk of marginalisation. The exhibition held at the Dougherty Community Centre in Chatswood...
PW
Mona Vale swimmers took to Orange the food collected during their 2022 Christmas Party to help the flood victims in and around the area. The group formed a relationship with Food Care set up in Orange two years ago when they...
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...