Coast Community News

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Circulating in the Central Coast of NSW.

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Coast Community News articles

Origami Festival a resounding success

Coast Community News
Arts
This year marked a turning point for the Origami Folding Art and Sound Festival, held at the Japanese Gardens at Gosford Regional Gallery ... Playful, surreal and grounded all at once, the event fostered a shared sense of wonder created in real time.

Whales are making an appearance

Coast Community News
Marine
The first of the migrating humpback whales have been spotted off the Central Coast but the best is still to come, says Marine Mammal Specialist with Marine Wildlife Rescue Central Coast Ronny Ling ... "The first whales to start travelling are the juvenile males, then the pregnant ones and the mothers with calves from the last few years. The big breeding males then leave and are the fastest travellers."
Terry Collins

The day the music died – Dave Price, 98 hangs up his clarinet

Coast Community News
Music
Terry Collins. At the age of 98, David Price is saying goodbye to the community band Tempo Terrific. Price has played bass clarinet with the band since its formation in 1998.

Families furious with 10 per cent rise in childcare fees

Coast Community News
Council
Families who use childcare and early education centres run by Central Coast Council are furious with the plan to raise fees by 10% and worried about what it means for their working future. One called it a cash grab, another said it was a rip off ... "disgusting cash grab from Council"...

Right Royal encounter at Uluru

Coast Community News
International
Terry Collins. When the Harris family of Avoca Beach headed to Uluru for a long weekend recently, they little suspected the trip would involve a royal encounter ... "The King and Queen went to some sort of news briefing and as they were coming back they came over to us," Owen said.

Cancer fundraising ride a family affair

Coast Community News
Charity
Ivona Rose. On Monday, March 16, Terrigal prostate cancer advocate Steve Keil took to the saddle with his daughter, Courtney Keil, for a five-day fundraising and awareness horse ride, tracing the trail of The Man From Snowy River across Victoria’s high country.
Charity ride

No plans to privatise national parks

Coast Community News
Land & environment
Minister for the Central Coast, Member for Wyong David Harris has hit back at suggestions made by the State Liberal Party's Shadow Minister Jacqui Munro that there is something sinister about plans to allow some campgrounds in national parks to be set aside for private operators to manage.

We love and live for the Central Coast

We’re all for the Central Coast – we live here, we work here, we spend our time and our dollars here. We listen, we volunteer and we’re involved in the local community. We’re locally owned and we employ locals. That’s why over 200,000 coasties support us.

Editorial Email: editorial@centralcoastnews.net
Sales Email: sales@centralcoastnew.net
Website: coastcommunitynews.com.au
Social: Facebook – Twitter – Instagram – Youtube

Central Coast Newspapers is a locally owned and based public interest news service that publishes across multiple platforms; in print, online, on radio, on mobile, social media, audio/video and subscription services.

CCN is a locally owned business that employs local staff. who live on the Central Coast.
We are members of the Local and Independent News Association – LINA.

Digital

The amalgamated digital news service coastcommunitynews.com.au has a 284,000 regular users and 1,900,000 google search page views (July 2023) – the combined associated social media assets have a monthly reach of 120,000 people including – YouTube – Facebook – Twitter – Instagram (July 2023). The combined push notifications of email and web push subscription list of 84,000 (July 2022).

Print

CCN publishes and distributes and amalgamated weekly masthead Coast Community News, with a total print run of over 27,000 papers each week, with 60,000 + readers each week. (Each paper is read by on average 2.2 people) plus digital flip book readers.

Contributions are welcome and are preferred in email form, ideally with any relevant photographs attached. Contributions must include the contributor’s name, address and phone number. This is not for publication but name and suburb will be published and anonymous contributions will not be included.

Journalists: Terry Collins, Sue Murray, Denice Barnes, Merilyn Vale
Print Graphic Design: Brad Yee
Head of Distribution: Anthony Wagstaff
Manager and Digital Editor: David Abrahams
Email: editorial@centralcoastnews.net

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