Joan Ridgeway and Bev Germon, the winners of the Ladies Pairs Championship.
IN WARM conditions the Semi Final of the Ladies Fours Championship, with some great bowls played by all four teams, was decided. Di Pritchard, Lou Clements,Bev Murray and Judy Sheely beat the team of Paula Standen, Val Pritchard, Pat Cox and Penny Gibson 26 to 13. And the team of Jill Everett, Suzanne Cross, Joy […]
Kymani Tarr. Net Set Go participants. Nikita Partridge. AS THE final whistle blows on the 2025 Winter netball season, the Gloucester District Netball Association (GDNA) is celebrating one of its biggest and brightest years for a while – with record numbers of junior players, huge weekly training turnouts, and some truly thrilling netball played across […]
LAST weekend the four Mid North Coast golf croquet clubs met at Taree courts for the District Championships. Forster and Port Macquarie contested Division 1 (handicaps up to 4) while all four clubs contested Divisions 2 and 3 – Division 2 being handicaps 5-8 and Division 3 handicaps 9 upward. Representing Gloucester were Division 2: […]
Paul Blanch, Strawb Benson, Jackson Blanch and Mark Monro.
ON Saturday, 11 October, the Gloucester Golf Club played its annual Tom Blundell Memorial and golfers turned out in numbers to take advantage of the top course conditions presented to them The event was a Four Person Ambrose, and the clear winners were Paul Blanch, Mark Monro, Strawb Benson and Jackson Blanch 57, two strokes […]
Served by Jetstar’s Airbus A320, the new service will start on 2 December 2025. Photo: Jetstar.
DIRECT seasonal flights will launch between Newcastle and Hobart, connecting the two cities for the first time. Served by Jetstar’s Airbus A320, the new service will start on 2 December 2025 and run three times a week – every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday – until 21 April 2026. The seasonal flights will return each summer […]
THERE was already some warmth in the air for the start of Gloucester’s 226th parkrun. After a bumper crowd for the long weekend before, it was the locals that dominated those gathering at the start. Visitors from Singleton, Central Coast and Taree added to the 55 finishers for the day. As usual, the parkrun started […]
Haydon Cornall.
LAST Saturday, 4 October, Hayden Cornall won the Gloucester Golf Club’s October Monthly Medal, an Individual Stroke event sponsored by the Arkwood Family. It a big field marked by a large contingent of visitors no doubt taking advantage of the school holidays to combine family visits with golf on one of the best nine-hole courses […]
Anyone interested in the industry is invited to provide feedback to the independent review.
THE NSW Government has released a discussion paper to guide public consultation on the independent review of the Thoroughbred Racing Act 1996. The review will assess whether the Act remains appropriate to ensure the integrity and proper regulation of thoroughbred racing in NSW and to support the industry’s development and sustainability. It will also consider […]
Carolyn Davies, Denver Webb and Debbie Sate.
THE Gloucester Veteran Golfers turned out in numbers on Tuesday 30 September for some good weather and vastly improved course conditions. The day ended with Carolyn Davies and Debbie Sate getting the better of a countback separating two very good Four Ball scores at the top of the leaderboard. The event was a Four Ball […]
Jillaroos international hooker Olivia Higgins performed strongly in Newcastle Knights’ 30-6 NRLW preliminary final loss to Brisbane Broncos. Photo: AAP Image/Dave Hunt.
Jillaroos international hooker Olivia Higgins performed strongly in Newcastle Knights’ 30-6 NRLW preliminary final loss to Brisbane Broncos. Photo: AAP Image/Dave Hunt. Emerging Knights fullback Lilly-Ann White missed Newcastle’s 18-12 Grand Final loss to Cronulla in the NSW Women’s Premiership. HUNTER rugby league queens Olivia Higgins and Lilly-Ann White have experienced finals heartbreak with the […]
