PROUDLY applying the Australian Made kangaroo logo to all of its products is the goal for Toormina-based industry leader, Monsoon Irrigators; an idea that is fast-tracking its way to fruition thanks to the company’s successful grant application for $150,000 through…
“IT’S all about the story. If you take a close look into any great song, there is always a great story both somewhere behind it and being conveyed within the lyric.” Singer/songwriter Craig Stewart should know. Advertise with News of…
MEMBERS of the Bowraville Racecourse Art Group have submitted artworks to Macleay Valley Community Art Gallery’s ‘Movember in July’ exhibition. The exhibition ends on Sunday 17 July at the gallery in Gladstone. It is a non competitive event designed to…
HEAD along to 2NVR Nambucca Valley Radio on Friday 15 July to witness the beginnings of ‘Moose Weasel’. Pedro Argent and Tom Goodwin from the Loose Cannons have teamed up with Mick Baines to form Moose Weasel, a new band…
A MASTERPLAN is in the works for a 1.373-hectare block of commercially zoned land at 1 Railway Road, Nambucca Heads, which developers believe will “assist the main street commercial precinct, which has restricted parking capability and is difficult to expand…
POPULAR Scott’s Head cafe-restaurant Scotts Hub will host a much anticipated intimate solo concert by world-travelled musician and composer Paul Fogarty on August 20. It’s almost a year since prolific singer-songwriter Paul Fogarty moved his family from Europe back home…
DURING recent Covid-19 lockdowns Christopher Robinson took the opportunity to utilise his many skills, vision and local home workshop by sourcing and resurrecting broken and abandoned bikes of all shapes and sizes. “After noticing many discarded bikes on the side…
LOCAL musician Deebee Bishop is celebrating 40 years as a professional musician this month. Leaving school at the early age of fifteen years Deebee started an apprenticeship as a ship’s carpenter and went to Ultimo College in Sydney. Advertise with…
GREENS MLC Cate Faehrmann, the party’s planning spokesperson, has recently been touring the Mid North Coast on a fact-finding mission, meeting with communities who believe they are under threat from inappropriate building developments. Last week Ms Faehrmann travelled from Yamba…
SEVERE weather and flooding across the Nambucca Valley was declared a natural disaster on Friday, with jointly funded Commonwealth-State disaster assistance now available to residents within the Local Government Area. Assistance was also extended to the LGAs of Cumberland, Mid…