CAUTION should be taken when entering the Boambee Creek Estuary area, according to Southern Cross University’s Professor Kirsten Benkendorff. “In particular, stay out of the dead mangrove areas where you can see pools of black mud,” she told News Of…
DEAR News Of The Area, THERE is no doubt that we are all very well aware that we are living through a housing crisis. And if we accept that we are ‘all’ aware, then this includes all of us from…
THE long-time owner and operator of the Bowraville Sawmill, Matt Dyer, made an impassioned plea to Nambucca Valley Council at its 16 November meeting in response to recent actions by councillors across the Mid North Coast who signed a letter…
STREET Libraries Australia are thrilled to be coordinating ‘National Shared Reading Week’ which takes place between Monday November 27 and Sunday December 3, with a local event set to take place in Fishermans Reach. Shared reading is simply reading with…
EMERGING Nambucca Valley/Coffs Coast band Blind Pretty has won itself a prized spot on MusicNSW’s Sister Cities regional tours. Locally, they will play the Backroom at The Coffs Hotel on Saturday 2 December. Blind Pretty was selected from over 150…
MARY Ball from the Nambucca Valley Red Cross Emergency Services Team has recently been awarded the prestigious Distinguished Services Medal by the Red Cross. Mary, who received the award in recognition of her role as Team Leader, was one of…
KEMPSEY Shire Council (KSC) will submit an application to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) to increase property rates by a cumulative 42.7 percent over three years to ‘address financial sustainability and a forecast $79 million deficit over the…
TWO of the Nambucca Valley’s most respected musicians, Julie Kovendy and Dee Bee Bishop, will reunite on Sunday 3 December at the Eungai Creek Soldiers Memorial Hall and deliver an unmissable afternoon concert, all in the name of community. Julie…
NETWORKING opportunities and creating new connections were declared as two winning outcomes from the 60-plus stakeholders who attended the Coffs Agrifood Living Lab (CALL) launch at Yarrila Place on October 25. Facilitated by the CALL project team, Dr Ozgur Dedehayir…
AN ICON of Australian entertainment, Nambucca Valley farm owner and author Bryan Brown has been named as Patron of the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival (BRWF) for 2024. The highly reputed Festival returns to Bellingen Showground on the King’s Birthday…