Parkrun’s Tailwalker. Having a good chat at the parkrun. IT WAS a cooler morning for Gloucester’s 227th parkrun, after the thunderstorm and welcome rain of the night before. There was an interstate flavour to the crowd gathering at the start, with visitors from Toowoomba, Surfers Paradise and Melbourne as well as the more local Maitland […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]