RAISING money through weekly bingo games, the Nambucca Heads branch of the United Hospital Auxiliary (UHA) has continued its tradition of fundraising, with more than $20,000 to be presented to Macksville District Hospital from the last financial year. The announcement…
DORRIGO-born and bred ‘Missy’ Cathryn McGuire is helping people get places in her car, by becoming an an authorised point-to-point transport driver. “I was tossing up the idea of becoming an uber or community transport driver,” Missy told News of…
TODD Fenech is a busy man. He is in two fire brigades – the Newee Creek Rural Fire Brigade, and the lower North Coast Remote Area Firefighter Team. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your…
GARY Cattanach is Aboriginal teacher and artist at Nambucca High School. He is currently performing his latest song at a diverse range of venues. Called ‘Raise Your Hands’ the song is pure positivity about the ‘yes’ vote for Australians. Advertise…
ENTREPRENEURSHIP is being introduced to school students as an exciting career path to consider. Through the Regional Youth Entrepreneurism Activation Program, students are attending interactive workshops at their school facilitated by The Scale Institute and funded by Investment NSW. Advertise…
CONCEIVED as an aid to help visualise catchment-wide disasters and their effects, the remarkable ‘Big Map’ was on display at Kempsey’s Slim Dusty Centre last week. Encouraging communities to become safer and stronger via engagement was a driving force of…
IT all began with a basic inquiry on local social media pages and now a collection of enthusiastic individuals from the Stuarts Point and Yarrahapinni district have agreed to gather for casual sessions of visual art creativity. It started with…
GUMBAYNGGIRR Elders and Coffs Coast conservationists are despairing at the latest logging by Forestry Corporation NSW (FCNSW). Newry State Forest west of Valla, between Urunga and Macksville, which Elders and conservationists say supports nationally-significant colonies of koalas and greater gliders,…
