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New Walking Tours Announced for 2024 The Hornsby Shire Historical Society invites residents and history enthusiasts to experience history blended storytelling with historian and author Tim Sowden (author of Zig Zag Away).  Opening in November and December, three new community walks tracing the route from Thornleigh Station towards Zig Zag Creek...

Real blokes don’t talk about their feelings, apparently.  Men and women are different –they socialise in different ways, they express themselves in different ways, and they are hard-wired to view the world differently.  Research from Deborah Tannen PhD in her book “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”...

Courtenay Peters, a teacher at St Lucy’s Special Education Wahroonga, was awarded the 2024 Commonwealth Bank Teachers Award. She was selected from over 500 nominees and was one of 22 inspiring educators recognised at this year’s ceremony.  The Commonwealth Bank Teaching Award honours teachers who display leadership in their field,...

Annually, Westfield recognises and awards individuals across Australia and New Zealand who impact their local communities in positive, lasting ways.  Westfield have announced the winners of the Westfield Local Heroes program.  Across 42 Westfield locations, a hero is celebrated and given a $20,000 grant for the organisation they represent, and...

On Peats Ferry Road and Dural Lane, a street festival will commence for the first time in the Hornsby Shire. Saturday the 16th of November, Hornsby Spring Fest will be packed with live music, market stalls, food trucks, a bar, kids’ activities, and family entertainment.  Hornsby Spring Fest is funded...

Want an amazing way to give back? Lifeline’s recruitment drive is currently recruiting its next intake of volunteers to assist in its crucial mission of ‘an Australia free of suicide.’ Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury Sydney needs volunteers for telephone crisis support and digital crisis support. This service, and all correlating...