THE Coffs Harbour chapter of Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) has just completed its first term for 2023, and is looking to increase rider numbers for its next term, beginning on Tuesday 2 May. Coffs RDA has been active…
AS the launch of the Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival 2023 program fast approaches, organisers have extended an invitation for local authors to step into the limelight during the June long weekend festivities. Program director Adam Norris explained to News…
THE COFFS Coast Pipes and Drums band was amongst a huge crowd of musicians and spectators attending the Maclean Highland Gathering at Maclean over the Easter Weekend. “The Scottish festival saw one of the biggest crowds for many years,” Dale…
CHANGE Makers is a new program focusing on youth-driven change launched by OzGREEN. The first six-week course starts on Tuesday 2 May and runs until 27 June, every Tuesday 4pm-5.30pm at the North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens in Coffs Harbour.…
DELIVERING a live music night to remember, The Terrys rocked the stage at Jetty Beach House on Friday 31 March, giving an unforgettable performance to a crowd of enthusiastic music lovers. Opening acts Blind Pretty and The Moving Stills set…
THE Community Union Defense League (CUDL) and the Coffs Youth Climate Alliance (CYCA) have collaborated to produce their first social fundraiser, a Concert For Climate focused predominantly on reaching the youth of the area. Scheduled for Friday 28 April at…
BELLINGEN photographer Barney Maple has opened an exhibition of his fine art photography at the National Cartoon Gallery, The exhibition, Dawn Till Dusk, is showing at The Bunker from 4 April to 4 June, and already receiving acclaim that Barney…
A HANDS-ON two-day agricultural industry tour around the Mid North Coast, a region chosen for its experience of recent storms and floods, saw 26 careers advisors and teachers soak up lived experience of working on the land and with the…
DEAR News Of The Area, I FIND myself struggling to find a middle ground between logging and ecological protection. I have good mates who work in the mill. I treasure books of the old timers with their stories full of…
THE Easter Sunday Markets at Stuarts Point Foreshore proved to be a great success as a crisp, yet sun filled morning welcoming the couple of dozen or so stall holders who worked like busy ants setting up from about 7am.…