ACROSS 10 days during the recent school holidays, Gloucester brothers Beau and Dane Laurie represented New South Wales Country at the Indoor Cricket National Championships held at Melbourne’s Casey Stadium. Neither Beau nor Dane are strangers to the game of cricket, but their achievements are remarkable considering that this was their first year playing indoor […]
Gloucester Soccer Club. Photos: Supplied. Gloucester Soccer Club. Photos: Supplied. THE Gloucester Scorpions made a welcome return to the pitch after the school holiday break, bringing plenty of enthusiasm, great sportsmanship and some exciting matches across all divisions in Round 11. Accommodation Gloucester Mini Roos It was fantastic to see our youngest Scorpions back in […]
Gloucester Bushwalkers at the start of Corker Trail. Photo: Supplied.
Gloucester Bushwalkers at the start of Corker Trail. Photo: Supplied. Lunch Break at Selby Alley Hut at the top of the Corker Trail. Photo: Supplied. Heading up the Corker Trail, Barrington Tops. Photo: Supplied. FEW walking tracks in NSW have a reputation quite like The Corker. Rising steeply from Lagoon Pinch to the Barrington Tops […]
Turner Freeman Scorpions. Turner Freeman Scorpions. IT was a tough day at the office for the Gloucester under-14 Scorpions when they hosted the Taree Wildcats in Gloucester last Saturday. Both sides were missing several regular players, making for a hard-fought contest through the middle of the park. Gloucester started brightly, pressing well and matching the […]
Team Bowden, the victors.
A LATE-season surge enabled Team Bowden – comprising Tom Maggs, Phil Bowden, Aaron Kelly and Andrew Laurie – to claim the honours in the recently completed men’s tennis competition. Sitting third for much of the competition, Bowdens only scraped into the final with a convincing last-round win over Team Gazecki enough to propel them into […]
Gai Falla Pat Burrows.
THE Gloucester Golf Ladies arrived at a fog-cloaked course last Wednesday, 22 July, joking about being ready about hitting the ball out of sight. Once the fog lifted it was time to enjoy Gloucester’s winter sunshine and the challenge of playing a different type of game with gai Fall and Pat Burrows being the best […]
Ray Vale, from Gloucester U3A, with Laurene Mulcahy, President U3A Network NSW, and Jennie Wright, Mid North Coast Regional U3A representative. Photo: Pauline Cain
REPRESENTATIVES of mid north coast branches of the University of the Third Age (U3A) gathered in Port Macquarie recently to share procedures and practice with each other. U3A is an international organisation founded on the belief that people in their third age of life still have much to learn and contribute. Each U3A offers a […]
ONE Nation leader Pauline Hanson has failed to overturn a court ruling that she made a racist remark when she told a fellow senator to go “back to Pakistan”. After spending much of her decades-long career rejecting accusations of racism, One Nation founder Pauline Hanson has failed to quash a court ruling that she made […]
Seven suspected cases of bird flu have been detected in greater crested terns, a common coastal species in Australia. Photo: AAP Image/Andrew Stafford.
THE poultry industry is on alert after seven suspected bird flu cases were found in native species, potentially marking a new phase for the outbreak. The poultry industry is on alert after seven sick greater crested terns were found in South Australia’s southeast, sparking fears of a local transmission. Five were collected from Southend in […]
