Peninsula in the News
Thursday, December 23
A Woy Woy lottery player won $100,000 after purchasing a ticket from a Woy Woy newsagency.
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Pearl Beach residents are among those angry at the State Government's development plans for the Central Coast.
Under its Sydney metropolitan strategy, 100,000 new residents will be squeezed into the region by 2031.
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Police are investigating the drowning of a youth who had been riding a boogie board at Umina Beach.
Although the death was not treated as suspicious, it is not known how the boy came to drown after he paddled out about 8.30am.
Sun Weekly
A police constable was doused in petrol and another officer was burnt during an arson attack on Woy Woy police station on Saturday, December 18.
Senior police said the 32-year-old constable was lucky to be alive after a man allegedly threw petrol in his face, on his uniform and around the station foyer before igniting the fuel.
Sun Weekly
Thursday, December 30
A Federal Government Envirofund grant of $5000 has been awarded to the Pearl Beach bushcare group.
They will use it to clear two hectares of almost impenetrable lantana and weeds on a site known as the old Mazlin Farm.
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Friday December 31
Daleys Point resident Jemma Rosen is working to keep thousands of orphaned children, including babies, alive in a monastery in the hills of Sri Lanka following the tsunami strike.
It is not known how the children reached the monastery.
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A Woy Woy business has been found guilty in Woy Woy local court recently of supplying tobacco to a minor. An employee of the business was fined $200.
Another Woy Woy business has been charged with the same offence and will face court in February.
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Wednesday January 5
Brisbane Water Police are investigating a break and enter at the Pearl Beach Store recently.
About 2am, three men in their early 20's, wearing dark coloured clothing, forced their way into the store and took a safe, laptop and cigarettes.
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People around the Rip Bridge on Wednesday, December 29, watched as the mast of a towed vessel scraped the bottom of the bridge.
The 18m steel ketch, with a 20m mast, had broken from its mooring at Daleys Point and was being towed to Booker Bay Marina.
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Thursday January 6
An Ettalong Beach man was allegedly hit on the head with a rock and kicked repeatedly by two men at his Ocean View Rd home on January 3.
Officers from a nearby ambulance station went to the aid of the victim and called police.
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Thursday January 6
Scott Miller, 35, of Ettalong has worked as a spray painter, panel beater and then as a radiator sales shop owner.
Now he has started the Woy Woy Peninsula's first water taxi and scenic tours business.
Sun Weekly
A group of Pearl Beach residents has set out to reclaim a historic farm house site which has been enveloped by dense bush.
The farm house was built and occupied by the Mazlin family during the 1930s' Depression.
Sun Weekly
Friday January 7
Former Gosford mayor Mr Kim Margin has lodged plans with Gosford Council to develop land on the corner of Blackwall Rd and Bowden St into 50 units and townhouses.
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Artwork reflecting Japan's geishas was named the people's choice award winner at an exhibition held near Gosford's Japanese Gardens.
Kahlee Moulton, a year 12 student from Brisbane Water Secondary College's Woy Woy Campus, won the Kevin Flanagan Viewers' choice award for her work entitled "Karyukai Flower and Willow World."
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