THE Bellingen Labor Team has announced its opposition to the proposed Heartwood housing development in Bellingen due to safety concerns and a lack of support from local residents. The development would have provided for 80 lots at the top…
ALMOST fifty Bellingen locals gathered at Maam Gaduying Meeting Place Park in Bellingen last week to protest the jailing of a protester in Newcastle. On Tuesday 23 November 2021, 22-year-old climate activist Eric Serge Herbert (Sergio) was sentenced to…
“WE need experienced councillors to guide Bellingen Shire through post-COVID-19 and dealing with the impacts of climate change,” said Bellingen Shire Mayor Dominic King. Cr King told News Of The Area, “If you haven’t been on Council before, the…
ON the last parliamentary sitting day of 2021, the lower house of the NSW Parliament passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021. Gurmesh Singh, Member for Coffs Harbour, told News Of The Area the Coffs Harbour electorate was in…
ECO Dynamic Building in Coffs Harbour has won the Housing Industry Association’s Northern NSW Affordable Housing Award. “This is a category that is very close to our values,” said Luke McKay, founder/proprietor of Eco Dynamic Building. Advertise with News…
ADVANCED Metal Industries is a family-owned local business that creates products that are used both nationally and internationally. Working with a wide range of metals as well as aluminium, the company produces high quality balustrades, awnings, doors and windows…
FROM burned-out to lonely, fearful to jobless, across the generations people are finding life tough today. In everyday conversations friends, family and colleagues are turning to each other sharing their daily-life experiences and any one of us can find…
NAMBUCCA Heads High School (NHHS) has a team of dedicated teachers coaching and assisting students in the Run Beyond Project. The Run Beyond Project, a registered charity, ‘Uses running as a medium to help students facing adversity; learn goal…
IN a first world country like Australia it is reasonable to expect in most areas you would have sufficient mobile phone coverage to go about your business and to call for help in an emergency. For residents in Salamander…
DEAR News Of The Area, I TEACH my grandkids about preferential voting by telling them about a family of ten who can only buy one tub of flavoured ice cream. Three in the family want liquorice ice cream, one…