THE Community Use Permaculture Space (CUPS), a proposed urban garden for food growing, meeting and nature-themed activities in Brian Navin Park, is committed to its regular monthly meeting to build plans despite formal approval not being finalised for the site.…
THE City of Coffs Harbour has recommended a plan of action to improve the health of the catchment for Hearnes Lake in Woolgoolga which includes the establishment of a dedicated Task Force. It is proposed that the Task Force includes…
PREPARE to be transported back to a time of musical revolution and cultural significance as the Bowraville Theatre Singers, in collaboration with the esteemed John Vallins, bring the essence of the 1960s to life on stage. A few weeks ago…
WHEN Valla-based futures academic Claire Marshall created her ‘Museum of Futures: Our Shared Futures’ exhibition, currently on show at NSW Parliament House in Sydney, she did not expect the exhibition to make national newspaper headlines through an MP helping himself…
ON the Sunday of the King’s Birthday long weekend a group from Kyeewa Bushwalkers, led by Jean Meiklejohn, incorporated a beach clean up as part of their regular Sunday walk. The group undertakes walks across the region, covering the Nambucca,…
THE Macksville Hospital Maternity department is hoping to welcome two pieces of much-needed equipment with the help of the Humpty Dumpty Foundation. Through its ‘End of Financial Year’ campaign, the Humpty Dumpty Foundation has two Symphony breast pumps with cases…
SALLY Hook is a local artist with over forty years’ experience in ceramics, sculpture, and painting. She has exhibited in galleries up and down the East Coast but never in her hometown. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s…
UNDER threatening skies on Tuesday 13 June, at the Stuarts Point ‘All Saints’ Anglican Church, a strong group of locals gathered as volunteers from the North Coast Food Bank set up a varied display of pantry products, all for sale…