2021 has been a wild year and our mental health may require more assistance than usual. There have been COVID restrictions, border closures, vaccination delays and decisions and as we head towards the holiday season it’s no wonder we…
THE fertility journey of husband-and-wife creatives in Bellingen has given birth to a beautifully written and illustrated children’s book about…well, the beginning of life in general. ‘There’s A Reason You Are Here’ by Alex and Sarah Shortcake is now…
SCHOOL students are enjoying an easing of Covid-19 restrictions this week, with the NSW Department of Education now allowing assemblies, presentations, excursions, dancing, music classes and school sport to recommence. From Monday 8 November, NSW public schools can once…
THE Coffs Coast Waste Audit results are in and reveal the need to improve our waste disposal at the home level to reduce what is sent to landfill. The results show that almost 40 percent of the items going…
CONSTRUCTION company Buildonix Australia has received a $840,000 grant allowing it to construct a manufacturing facility for its construction system components in Coffs Harbour. The Regional Job Creation Fund grant will equate to creating 42 sustainable full-time jobs. Advertise…
COFFS Coast Climate Action Group members, dressed as dinosaurs, have protested against what they say is Australia’s dismal contribution to the COP26 global climate talks in Glasgow. The ‘dinosaurs’ danced and sang at the Coffs Harbour office of the…
BEHIND the scenes there’s a lot more to the fact that students have returned to school. According to experienced support groups the return has been met largely with a sigh of relief by many parents who were concurrently managing…
FORMER Federal Opposition Leader and Leader of the Labor Party, the Hon Bill Shorten MP, will visit Coffs Harbour next week. The MP’s quick visit to the city was announced on Monday by the Cowper Federal Electoral Council of…
THE Gumbaynggirr community is celebrating the registration of the first bilingual Aboriginal school, the Gumbaynggirr Giingana Freedom School. The Bularri Muurlay Nyanggan Aboriginal Corporation (BMNAC) is excited by the announcement by the NSW Minister for Education and Early Childhood…
THE Woolgoolga Lions Club presented its first life membership to Darryl Morris at a small ceremony on Saturday November 6 at the Woolgoolga Community Gardens. Immediate past President of the Club Jean Vickery told News Of The Area, “Daryl…