DORRIGO resident Cr Joanne Cook continues to support the Bellingen community as the re-elected Deputy Mayor of the Shire. A Nurse Unit Manager in the Operating Theatre at Bellingen Hospital, Cr Cook is honoured to be elected for a second…
OLD Mate’s Burgers celebrate Valentine’s Day with a twist. Taking the whole of February to share the love, Old Mate’s Burgers’ husband-and-wife owners, Christopher and Louise Wilson, are sizzling their way through their ‘Pay it Forward to Pete’s Place’ campaign…
A NEW report released last Thursday, titled ‘NSW Forest Carbon: An Effective Climate Change Solution’, shows that logging in New South Wales emits 3.6 million tonnes of carbon each year. The report says that this equates to 840,000 cars, or…
COFFS Coast residents are urged to contribute to the Draft Coffs Harbour Movement and Place Strategy, which has been led by the City of Coffs Harbour in collaboration with Transport for NSW and NSW Government agencies. The Draft Strategy outlines…
INDEPENDENT candidate for Coffs Harbour, Dr Sally Townley, has met with local families in Moonee Beach to hear their concerns about the elusive Moonee School which has never been built, despite the Department of Education owning a site for the…
A GUMBAYNGGIRR community singing event is happening for what Uncle Micklo Jarrett believes is a first in modern times. The ‘Jaanymili – Gather and Sing’ event takes place in Bellingen’s St Andrews Hall on Hyde Street on Sunday 26 February…
DEAR News Of The Area, A THOUSAND thanks to Stan Wood and Bruce Meder for their responses (NOTA 3/2/23) to Peter Weyling’s mischievous claim sourced apparently from the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). I would be a little less kind…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN NOTA letters on 10 February 2023, Barbara Davis asks the question ‘Where were Grandpa’s Scrub Activists in 2019?’ It’s a fair question Barbara and not the first time we have been asked. The short…
4 and 4A Banff Close, Boambee Price: $1,495,000 6 beds/3 baths/3 car SET in the gorgeous Boambee Valley is this immaculate rural residential property, boasting not one, but two dwellings on the parklike 3000 metre block. Not only is this…
ROTARY is a worldwide non-profit service organisation. Its members are welcome irrespective of their race, colour, creed, religion, gender or political persuasion. Rotary began in February 1905 in Chicago in the United States when Paul Harris, an attorney, brought together…