COFFS Harbour Neighbourhood Centre has been announced as one of the local organisations to benefit from NSW Government funding to provide support for social, health and disability sectors. “The grant from the NSW Government is designed to help our…
COFFS Harbour & District Eisteddfod Society (CHDES) is ramping up to their fiftieth year of providing performance opportunities for local students in the performing arts. The not-for-profit organisation is now planning to have a night of celebration and nostalgia…
COFFS Harbour City Council is seeking further input on an updated framework of coastal planning controls. According to Council the aim of the framework is to align it with NSW Government legislation and help clarify the information needed for…
MORE than one-in-ten Australians care for a family member or friend with a disability, medical condition, mental illness, drug or alcohol dependency or someone who is frail due to age. These carers have been among those impacted by recent…
MEMBERS of the Coffs Harbour Veteran and Vintage Car Club recently helped Bob Dixon celebrate the 100th anniversary of his Th. Schneider car, which was built in Besancon, France in 1922. Schneider cars enjoyed a reputation for quality and…
THE Coffs Hotel is celebrating St Patrick’s Day in style with an action packed line up of music and celebration from 10am on Thursday 17 March. Coffs Hotel patron Marty Phillips shared with News Of The Area what he…
ON Saturday, March 26 the popular retro music and classic car event The Summer Beach Hop returns to the Jetty Foreshores after an absence of more than two years. Organisers John Logan Entertainment have plans well in place, but…
EIGHTH generation Port Macquarie local Keith McMullen has been preselected by the Labor Party to contest the seat of Cowper in the upcoming Federal election. McMullen, born and raised in Port Macquarie, left school for a printing apprenticeship with…
COASTAL Claymakers are keeping alive the 20-year legacy of inspiring local mosaic artists of the Coffs Coast and the Nambucca Valley with a mosaic presentation and workshop at the end of March. “Guy Crosley’s public mosaic art in Scotts…
THE Bellingen Shire Council has successfully applied for funding to upgrade the existing Connell Park and Dangar Falls Play Spaces under the NSW Government’s Everyone Can Play grant program. At the heart of the Everyone Can Play program is…