A FUSION of West Bengal beats and Himalayan folk music describes the genre of The Three Seas band who will be performing at Bellingen Showground on Saturday 1 April on their 2023 tour of Australia. Event Organisers Ahva and Lauren…
ADFAS Coffs Coast (Australian Decorative Fine Arts Society) returns with its second arts talk tackling a controversial subject – The Parthenon Marbles or How Lord Elgin Gained and Lost His Marbles. On Monday 20 March at 6pm at the National…
CREATIVITY thrives in regional areas, and here in the Coffs Harbour region we see the evidence all around us with a flourishing cultural and arts scene that stamps the Coffs Coast as an exciting and growing creative hub. Local performing…
KORORA VIEW Club hosted 30 members and guests at Sawtell RSL Club on March 7 to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD). This year’s theme for IWD was ‘Embrace Equity’ with the aim to raise awareness about gender bias and to…
DEAR News Of The Area, DES Foley (NOTA 10.3.23) is right to ask the question: “what sort of a country are we leaving to our grandchildren?”. But rather than focus on climate change, which poses an existential threat to the…
“YOU don’t realise how hot it got with all that hair and now it’s gone it does feel great,” said cancer survivor Colin ‘Wormo’ Wormleaton after his fundraising Shave Off saw his tresses tumble to the ground. The cooling cut…
SATURDAY 25 February was the official opening of the ‘Walking Together: Voice – Treaty – Truth’ Exhibition at Phoenix Gallery and Café in Bowraville. A crowd of more than 60 people were treated to a deeply heart-felt and inclusive Welcome…
DEAR News of the Area, AUSTRALIA is very fortunate to have preferential voting as it means you don’t risk wasting your vote when you vote for an independent or small party candidate – your second and later preferences mean your…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Greens vision for a sustainable food system (as outlined in NOTA, March 10) should be welcomed as a positive approach to ultimately ending food waste in NSW. Another big issue though – here on…
Sawtell Commons Estate Stage 3 Land Release Now Available. SAWTELL Commons is a premium land offering, backing onto the pristine native forests of Bongil Bongil National Park, just five minutes from the very heart of Sawtell Village and its pristine…