IN moving around the central business district lately, two features of the city have come to my attention. The first is the colourful roundabouts, which lift the heart with their winter displays. The second is the absence of flooding when…
DEAR News Of The Area, Lynette Hyde (NOTA 12/8/22), says increased carbon in the atmosphere “will send us back to a primaeval festering uninhabitable planet”. If she had not looked back into the past, when atmospheric CO2 was ten times…
SPORTING needs for local clubs and individuals using York Street Oval are being met with improved facilities through a $1.1 million NSW Government Infrastructure and Job Acceleration Fund grant. Coffs Harbour’s athletics community will enjoy new field event facilities and…
PROBUS Woolgoolga Club is back with a packed agenda of monthly meetings, regular outings and socialising. With the plans in place and people signing up for meeting, the club is inviting retirees interested in Probus to get in touch. Advertise…
PIANIST Val Moase, whose fingers have been tinkling the ivories for Woolgoolga Red Cross for many a year, has been thanked for her long service to the branch as she steps down from the piano stool. At a recent meeting…
Narranga Primary School teacher Eric Stribley wowed the crowd with an array of cruisy tunes last Sunday afternoon at the Jetty Beach House. The crowd immersed in the bluesy, country tones ranging from REM to John Farnham, Boy George and…
AUTHOR and poet Jennifer Hetherington has joined the News Of The Area team as a correspondent. As a published author and committed writer of poetry and prose, Jen recognises the stories in her community of Stuarts Point, Fishermans Reach, Scotts…
A MILESTONE for the Coffs community – that’s how Tori Donnelly feels about her appointment as the First Nations Curator to lead the development and delivery of one of the first exhibitions to open in the new Yarrila Arts and…
WASPS, whales, pet dogs and a rollicking rooster, the animals and insects are back at the Coffs Harbour Showground Gallery, in the Coffs Harbour Creative Arts Group (CHCAG) members’ exhibition, ‘All Creatures Great & Small’. This annual favourite is a…
THE future management of Coffs Coast Regional Park is being guided by a new trust board including a mix of fresh faces and former members. Coffs Coast Regional Park protects the coastal strip north of Coffs Harbour – from Macauleys…