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Top touch football for Port

01 Feb 12 | THE NSW Hornets Touch Association will hold their annual Regional Junior Touch Football Tournament at the Tomaree Sports Complex this weekend.

Sport - General

New league team for Williamtown

01 Feb 12 | A NEW rugby league team is about to commence in Port Stephens with the formation of the Williamtown Jets RLFC.

Sport - Rugby League

Sharks take the field

01 Feb 12 | THE chance for Port Stephens newest sporting outfit to show its wares will be trialled tomorrow night.

Sport - Rugby League

Young fishers are the future of the sport

01 Feb 12 | YOU will have noticed over the past six weeks the continually growing number of kids walking the waterfront with a fishing rod in one hand and a bucket in the other.

Sport - General

League hopefuls at Port Stephens

25 Jan 12 | IT'S down to business for Port Stephens' newest rugby league club. Next Tuesday the Port Stephens Sharks will put the first of its pre-season training runs together for any under 16, 17 and 18 year

Sport - Waterskiing

Best community coach

25 Jan 12 | OUT of a field of coaches across the state, Medowie resident Matthew Fox has been named best NSW community coach in the Australian Government's Active After-school Communities (AASC) program for Term

Sport - Waterskiing

Golf for charity at Bobs Farm

25 Jan 12 | PALMS Golf Course at Bobs Farm is holding a $10,000 hole in one competition to raise funds for children suffering with autism. The competition, held next sunday January 29, is a two person, best b

Sport - Waterskiing

Club gets $2000 grant

25 Jan 12 | TILLIGERRY Football Club iscelebrating a happy new year after the local outfit was awarded $2000 as part of the Goals for Grassroots campaign, a partnership between Hyundai and the A-League. On De

Sport - Waterskiing

Nix hits career best form

25 Jan 12 | AFTER a year of success in the pool, Tomaree swimmer Pamela Nix has her heart set on an even bigger 2012. The 44 year old has hit career best form during the past few months, breaking numerous stat

Sport - Waterskiing

Bodyboard club call for members

18 Jan 12 | PORT Stephens Bodyboard Club is celebrating another successful year in 2011 with great performances from all members during the seven exciting rounds of competition. The younger members are startin

Sport - Athletics

Turnout of 160 for Fingal Mile ocean swim

18 Jan 12 | The Fingal Mile Ocean Swim was held for the second consecutive year on January 7, drawing 160 competitors to more than double on last year's turnout. Organiser Kate Preston said she was "really ha

Sport - Athletics

Another mangrove Jack : Stinker

18 Jan 12 | I HAVE been writing this column weekly for 25 years and there are two fish that I have always hoped I would see in Port Stephens. One is a 1kg whiting, the other a mangrove Jack. To this day I h

Sport - Athletics

Sharks lifeline close hoping to broker deal this week

18 Jan 12 | THE Port Stephens Sharks are still swimming in the Newcastle rugby league. The club has confirmed it is chasing the assistance of a last-minute financial backer, who could help steer them onto the

Sport - Athletics

Pair making waves - New paddlers take national outrigger title

18 Jan 12 | HUSBAND and wife duo Tony Compton (58) and Carol, 60, have been rowing only a short time but are already making waves in their new found sport. In December the Compton's travelled to the National M

Sport - Athletics

School picnic days as they were : Old Salt

18 Jan 12 | FROM what I have gathered any visitors arriving in Nelson Bay on that day must have thought that they had just set foot in a ghost town, as the place was all but deserted. Best the Lund kids tell y

Sport - Athletics

Surf club masters at Fingal 170 expected for carnival on Saturday

11 Jan 12 | MORE than 170 masters of the surf from a number of leading lifesaving clubs around NSW will converge on Fingal Bay for this weekend's masters carnival. Saturday's competition will see clubs from as

Sport - Waterskiing

Jack, a rare visitor, is back : Stinker

11 Jan 12 | ANOTHER one - it was only a couple of weeks ago that I featured a mangrove Jack in this column, now it seems others have decided to visit us. A northern species rarely seen in our waters, the magni

Sport - Waterskiing

Fingal Bay nippers turn out for intensive training

11 Jan 12 | THREE days of intensive nippers training aimed at teaching young ones about surf life safety has had a huge impact at Fingal Bay Surf Lifesaving club. Some 51 juniors aged eight through to 14 took

Sport - Waterskiing

Bobs Farm teenager in top tier of endurance riders

11 Jan 12 | BOBS Farm resident Allix Jones, 19, has finished runner up in the Youth Endurance World Riding Championship held in Abu Dhabi. Part of a team of four girls representing Australia,the impressive re

Sport - Waterskiing

Plenty of fight in 'Old Westy' : Stinker

11 Jan 12 | 'OLD Westy' served with distinction but was wounded in action and returned to Australia on board the 'Karmala'. In 1920 he married Elizabeth Pedelty and the couple had 6 children. The eldest Richar

Sport - Waterskiing

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