A GROUP of year twelve students at Coffs Harbour Education Campus (CHEC) collectively known as Blind Pretty ‘cut’ their first recording at ValleySounds Studio in Nana Glen earlier this April. The band consists of four members – Beau Hussell mans…
ANZAC Day at Sawtell will be commemorated in traditional style, with a Dawn Service commencing at 6am in the Lyle Rose RSL Memorial Park in Fourth Avenue behind the RSL Club. The later street march will commence at 11am and…
NEWCASTLE Permanent, the Hunter-based financial institution, has been named the best bank in Australia, placed first in Forbes’ World’s Best Banks, an annual list created based on a survey of 48,000 banking customers across 32 countries. The survey asks participants…
THE second Coffs Coast Festival of Motor Sport has been confirmed for 2023. The month-long motor sports event held across the Coffs Coast will start on Saturday 4 November and go through until the weekend finale on 26 and 27…
LIKE most Council areas in Australia, City of Coffs Harbour has strong policies and planning guidelines for commemorative and memorial plaques on public land. Public open space areas are an important community resource, so memorials, monuments and plaques need to…
BOAMBEE East Community Centre (BECC) Chin Waggers gathered a group of 25 members to pay a visit to Coffs Community Radio station 2AIR FM’s Glenreagh Street studio to celebrate World Amateur Radio Day 2023 on Tuesday 18 April. 2AIR FM…
CANCER Council NSW is looking to recruit volunteers to work at the Mid North Coast Cancer Institute in Coffs Harbour. The volunteers are primarily based in the chemotherapy treatment room where they chat with patients, family and carers and offer…
YOUNG bands have a new competition which aims to elevate their exposure and support their emergence into the music industry. Boom Clash Rockstar is the brainchild of Brett Pattinson, frontman for Aussie ska band The Allniters, and music industry expert…
THE Japanese Children’s Day Festival returns to the Coffs Harbour Botanic Gardens on May 7 from 9am to 3pm. The festival has run for many years in Coffs Harbour as an integral part of the ‘sister city’ relationship with the…
SIX decades of stalwart service to the Bellingen branch of Australian Red Cross has been recognised with a presentation of the organisation’s prestigious Guilt Rosette to tireless volunteer Valerie Rose. For just over 60 years she has been a member…