A NEW ‘return and earn’ machine has been installed at Toormina Shopping Centre. Coffs Harbour residents are already enthusiastic recyclers, having returned more than 110 million containers for recycling since Return and Earn launched in 2017. Advertise with News of…
CREATIVE Seated Dance Music and Movement Classes kick off at the Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatorium on Monday 15 August with a live music accompanist. Julie Ross and Suzanne McCarty have performed on the big stage and with decades of teaching…
CHRISTMAS pudding and custard awaited the Lions Need for Feed truck drivers as they brought yet another convoy carrying fodder through Coffs Harbour and staying overnight on Saturday – 23 July – before journeying on to flood devastated Lismore and…
LIVERPOOL Football Club International Academy and representatives of the Australian College of Physical Education (ACPE) were among a handful of career pathways presenters for year-10 students at Bishop Druitt College (BDC) last week, demonstrating how students can establish a career…
KATHRYN Edmunds, long-time Bellingen resident who works in Coffs Harbour, is recently back from a life-changing event in Fiji. She attended the opening of the first Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Heart Hospital to be established outside of India, which provides surgery…
DESPITE Covid Bellingen Country Women’s Association members have been busy helping others, particularly flood victims, enjoying each other’s company at craft days, learning about environmental issues, discussing the accommodation crisis and keeping the rooms in good order for the community…
WORK continues on the redevelopment of Coffs Harbour Hospital and during the past few weeks there has been activity in the older building behind the new section of the main hospital. On Tuesday morning, when the blinds were opened in…
DEAR News of the Area, Regular visitors to the newly-emerging tidal sand flats at the Coffs Jetty boat ramp are a small group of Sooty Oystercatchers, considered a vulnerable species in NSW. The Sooty Oystercatchers are striking black shorebirds with…
DEAR News of the Area, Former Labor politician and greenhouse gas enthusiast Joel Fitzgibbon has taken a job as lobbyist for the Forest Products Association. What possible use is an ex-parliamentarian with personal access to many “mates” within government? The…
THE Coffs Coast’s most prestigious race event of the year, The Moonee Beach Hotel Gold Cup returns on Thursday, 4 August at Coffs Harbour Racing Club. The race has grown to be an iconic part of the Mid North Coast…