AFTER market research and analysis of the growing Kew and Kendall communities, the Kew Country Club has diversified its offerings with an 18-hole mini golf precinct, which will welcome families during school holidays. The precinct features a 130m² children’s play…
DEAR News Of The Area, OUR local Federal member, Pat Conaghan, plans a couple of information sessions to promote the National (Mining) Party’s proposal to build nuclear reactors in Australia. However, he wants to charge me $20.00 to attend! No…
WHEN Frank and his wife divorce, their adult daughter, Amanda moves into the matrimonial home with Frank. Amanda contributes to the payment of a lump sum to her mother, in return for her transferring her interest in the home to…
ARGUABLY the most eagerly anticipated yearly event in the Nambucca Valley revs up again this weekend when the 46th annual Valla Rod Run begins. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone…
MACKSVILLE Post Office is not equipped to deal with the growth the town has experienced in recent years, according to outgoing Nambucca Valley Mayor Rhonda Hoban. In particular, storage of parcels presents a large and visible problem with the office…
FIFTY years of caring for the elderly was celebrated in style on Saturday night at NVC Group’s 50th anniversary Gala Dinner at the Macksville Ex-Services Club. It was a lively event featuring awards for some of the organisation’s key contributors…
‘NUDE Swimming’, a single character theatre piece by Coffs Coast writer Willa Hogarth, has been selected to be performed in the nationally-recognised Madwomen Monologues festival in Melbourne. The annual program, run by Baggage Productions, highlights the work of female writers,…
LAST Thursday, 19 September ‘citizen scientists’ from the Forest Ecology Alliance (FEA) and concerned community members gathered at Little Newry State Forest for a sit-in. Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) logging operations are scheduled to begin in Little Newry within…
AN exhibition highlighting surf culture and history on the Coffs Coast will open in November. ‘Swell Chasers: Surf Stories from the Mid North Coast’ will open at Yarrila Arts and Museum (YAM) on Saturday 23 November, with the boardriding community…
LAST Wednesday in parliament Coffs Harbour MP Gurmesh Singh moved a motion calling on the NSW Labor Government to overturn a decision which removed Norco milk products from Mid North Coast and Northern NSW health district facilities. As previously reported…