PARK Beach Bowling Club continues to support Coffs Harbour Health Campus through club grants, recently donating $8000 to purchase life-changing equipment. The funds were used to buy a new plinth for the unit’s gym and eagerly awaited Patient Communication Boards…
THE team at Bellingen based landscape design and construction company Now & Zen has brought home four medals from The Landscape Association (TLA) Awards in Sydney. They are for specific projects and include gold for ongoing maintenance of a long-term…
“FLUID Boundaries” is an art exhibition opening at the Nexus Community Art Gallery at the Old Butter Factory in Bellingen. Showing the work of Phil Greed and Ray Rixon, the exhibition will be opened by the local artists between 12pm–…
THE “we said, they said” arguments over the Great Koala National Park continue unabated. Member for Oxley Michael Kemp, Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh, and Member for Clarence Richie Williamson – all Nationals MPs – formally declared their opposition…
THE “Art of Parts” is the final exhibition from Bellingen artist Jim Hood. It will be showing in the Studio of the Nexus Gallery in Bellingen from 19 January to 14 February. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s…
ABORIGINAL and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss will visit Coffs Harbour on Tuesday 21 January as part of the “Informing the Agenda” project. The project seeks to collate and communicate the perspectives of First Nations peoples across…
THE 60th wedding anniversary of Patricia and Darrell Davis was not just a diamond date for the couple in their early 80s. Married at 3.30pm on 16 January, 1965, theirs was the first wedding in the St Andrews Presbyterian Church,…
THE winners of the annual Bellingen Shire Community Awards will be announced on Thursday 23 January at the Bellingen Memorial Hall. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02)…
THE “We Are Coast” creative agency fulfilled its 2024 mission by gifting young people across Coffs Harbour with art materials such as sketchbooks, pens and paints. The agency’s mission was to spread the magic of creativity by supplying vulnerable children…
THE revamped Brelsford Park will play host to a community Australia Day party on Sunday, 26 January. The full program of events is still to be finalised, but will kick-off with a free barbeque breakfast for all-comers from 8:00-11:00am. Advertise…