A LOCAL band of film lovers and humanitarians are hosting an encore of their successful fundraiser to help Afghan filmmakers and actors to get to safety following the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. The original ‘lockdown movie night’, organised by…
BANDS and music lovers let their hair down last Sunday in an epic last hurrah as the popular music venue Red-C Events closed its doors permanently. Musicians rocked the outside deck as the enthusiastic crowd lapped up the broad…
COFFS Coast conservationists are concerned that a new land-clearing code introduced by the NSW Government on Saturday could result in thousands of hectares of previously protected bushland being cleared for bushfire risk reduction. The Chief Executive of the Nature…
Free Trial Classes for the holidays WOW, school holidays are approaching – do we need them? Just kidding, of course we do! Kids looking for something different? We have a swag of classes looking for students to enjoy them.…
DEAR News Of The Area, RIGHT now, we have no bigger issue to deal with than the global pandemic. But we also have to think about the community we live in. We have an election for Bellingen Shire Council…
DEAR News of the Area, I, LIKE most of our local residents, am amazed, disappointed and extremely angry at the recent Covid breach that occurred on last Thursdays’ XPT from Sydney. A young Covid positive woman and her children,…
WHEN Darrell Groth’s friend recently passed away, he was left with more than the grief of missing his friend; he had lost his walking chum. As one of life’s “get on with it” guys, Darrell knew that if he…
BONGIL Bongil and Bindarri National Parks are amongst the more than two hundred sites that have been named as Assets of Intergenerational Significance (AIS) to help protect koalas and other endangered animals. The NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean used…
THIS week a team of 20 Love Bites facilitators from across the North Coast will complete the Run Against Violence, which they started on August 30, and will see the team complete 1300km of running. The group includes representatives…
DEAR News Of The Area, WE have had news from Nambucca Valley Council that the tender for the Nambucca Library Upgrade will cost $3, 656,700 excluding GST. That amounts to a round figure of around $4 million. The original…