A 16-year-old boy has been charged with high range drink driving after he was stopped on Pioneer Road, Towradgi over the weekend. Operation Fume was conducted by officers from the Traffic and Highway Patrol Command on Friday 15 January 2021, targeting alcohol and drug driving throughout Wollongong Police District. Throughout the course of the operation, … Continue reading
A MAN who allegedly ‘piggy-backed’ his elderly victim to a Towradgi home over the weekend and robbed him, will face Wollongong court today. A 67-year-old man was cleaning public space near the Towradgi rock pools about 2.30am on Sunday, when he was approached and chased into the sand dunes by a younger man. The younger … Continue reading
FREE workshops will be provided for the community as part of a project to celebrate the Coledale Community Hall becoming the home for the South Coast Writers Centre (SCWC). The creative project, supported by Wollongong City Council, will develop a mural for the outside wall of the Coledale hall (which the SCWC made their new … Continue reading
FIVE months after the long awaited opening of the new Bulli Hospital facility, a chronic doctor shortage is leaving the Urgent Care Centre (UCC) without a doctor for days on end and sending patients to other facilities. The state of the art $54 million Bulli Hospital opened in August 2020 and offers an UCC and … Continue reading
By MICK ROBERTS THE transformation of an old Bulli chemist shop into a bar and eatery could be just the right medicine for many of us, after a year most would like to forget. Thomas Bailey hopes to open Bulli’s latest hospitality offering, The Fitz Café & Bar in February 2021. Mr Bailey said the … Continue reading
ESCARPMENT tracks that generations of bushwalkers have enjoyed in the northern Illawarra have been closed to the public under the proposed Russell Vale Colliery’s expansion plans. The Russell Vale Colliery has been dormant for the last five years since it was placed under care and maintenance. The New South Wales Government has recommended that the … Continue reading
AS the sun set over the escarpment today, so did a significant chapter in the northern Illawarra’s history, when the last patients were wheeled from the old Bulli District Hospital. They were taken to the new $50 million Bulli Hospital and Aged Care Centre that has replaced the old institution on a site located on … Continue reading
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