SENIORS WEEK 2022 grants are being announced with two Coffs Coast recipients gaining a share of $200,000 in NSW Government funding to host a community event to celebrate the 2022 Seniors Festival to be held from 25 March 2022…
RETIREES, sea-changers and anyone with that rare commodity of time on their hands, are encouraged to consider volunteering at Sawtell Surf Life Saving Club. Sheena McTackett, President, told News Of The Area, “We need more people involved as the…
SAWTELL Public School is building the foundations for celebrating an important milestone in 2024 – the school’s Centenary. “We’re currently at the early stage of pre-organising for the celebrations and hope to be inclusive of the broader Sawtell community,”…
ON Monday 22 November the Big Banana gained a purple hue to join with Coffs Clarence Police, Ball Against Domestic Violence Street Hustle and other local support groups in promoting community awareness of Domestic and Family Violence (DFV). Chief Inspector…
OZGREEN is seeking community volunteers to run its award-winning Resilient Communities program across twelve localities on the North and Mid North Coast. Bellingen-based not-for-profit environmental and sustainability organisation OzGREEN is seeking applications from local people living in twelve communities…
WELL-KNOWN young humanitarian and Woolgoolga Public School student Olive Elliott has been named the 2021 New South Wales Junior Ambassador to The Fred Hollows Foundation at a ceremony for the Humanity Award earlier this month. The Humanity Award is…
THE number of women standing at the December 4 NSW local government elections this year has significantly increased following a campaign by the NSW Government to increase diversity among councillors. The NSW Electoral Commission has confirmed that women will…
LOCAL debut author Michel Vimal du Monteil finally launched his novel after two postponements. The title of his novel ‘Where There Is A Will’ rang true as Michel proved his firm will that this book would have a launch…
PLANS are now in place to tackle the weedy problem at The North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens’ Japanese Garden Lake. Recently News Of The Area reported that the Friends of the Garden had been working with Coffs Harbour City…
DEAR News Of The Area, ONE does not have to be a scientist to understand that digging up or extracting materials that have been sequestered beneath the earth’s surface for millions of years and then burning them would inevitably…