DORRIGO branch of the United Hospital Auxiliaries (UHA) of NSW has reflected on a successful year of fundraising for hospital equipment and thanked the local community for its support. The volunteer group donated a Hi Lo adjustable bed and four…
LEONARD Ale is back working at Costa Berries in Corindi to build up his finances to send home to the Solomon Islands, where he supports a school. This is his second placement with the company. Advertise with News of The…
ChiLL, Choices in Later Life, presents its next seminar as part of Dying to Know Day at The Shoreline Retirement Village on Tuesday 8 August. The free program typically goes for two hours and ends with a panel discussion, followed…
SEASONED director and producer Joaquim Dos Santos has just been announced as a special guest at this year’s inaugural Australian Children’s Content Summit in Coffs Harbour from Tuesday 29 August to Thursday 31 August at the city’s Pacific Bay Resort.…
USING theatre to bring attention to the lie of the land after NSW Forestry Corporation logged and left the Orara State Forest, local environment groups staged a “display of mourning”, as they called it. Continuing their protest against logging of…
MOBILE phone communications should now be better around South Arm. Via Nambucca Valley Council almost $1 million has been spent using state and federal funds to build a new ‘macro base tower’ on South Arm Rd. Advertise with News of…
A $750,000 reward for information regarding the disappearance of Rose Howell has been issued by the government. Rose Howell, then aged 18, was last seen about 6.15pm on Friday 11 April 2003 walking east along Perry’s Road, Repton, in the…
THERE is an old saying that goes, ‘You don’t know what you have until it’s gone’, such was the case over the many months of necessary renovation time that has occurred at the Nambucca Community & Arts Centre in Ridge…
SCORES of people gathered at Macksville Senior Citizens Hall on Sunday July 23 for a showdown. At 2pm sharp about 50 people converged at the hall for a question-and-answer session with MP Pat Conaghan. Advertise with News of The Area…
VULNERABLE people in their homes are getting more help to prepare for emergencies. Meals on Wheels NSW has developed a toolkit called ACT!, in conjunction with emergency services and representatives of in-home care organisations and the University of Sydney. Advertise…