Author name: Clyde Mooney

KELLY’S CRITERION BEGINS NEW CHAPTER

Country celebutante Ned Kelly has exited the Weston local Criterion Hotel, handing the reins to coastal publican Adam Drabarek. Rodney ‘Ned’ Kelly bought the re-stapled Hotel with first-timer partner Corey Dunn in late 2020 from Peter Calligeros. Negotiating several crazy COVID years and several more acquisitions, welcoming to the gang Scone’s Belmore, the Tattersalls in

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SURF, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY ALIVE AT THE BEACHES

Talisman of surf mecca Merewether Beach, the Beach Hotel, is unveiling its new aspect and plans for the future, under the tenure of current custodian Glenn Piper. Known by locals as simply the all-encompassing ‘The Beaches’, Newcastle’s iconic surfside pub was acquired by expanding hotelier Glenn Piper mid-2022, who hit the scene early 2020 with

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