THE new walking track at Muttonbird Island opened last week to the delight of locals who enjoy walking across to the easternmost lookout point on the Island. The new track, which cost $275,000, opened on Tuesday 31 August, with…
SEPTEMBER is Life Without Barriers (LWB) Education’s ‘Hook Into Books’ month – a national literacy campaign for children and young people growing up in out-of-home care. The goal is to bring the delights of reading books and storytelling to…
TIGHT-KNIT community members of the Northern Beaches have been left in shock following a fatal shark attack on a local surfer at popular Shelly Beach on Father’s Day. Timothy Thompson, 31, of Woolgoolga was attacked by what is believed…
HAVE you had yours? First jab or second jab? What did you get? These are questions we are all asking each other. Data released by Healthy North Coast (HNC) on August 29 reflects that North Coast COVID-19 vaccination rates…
THE Upper Orara Community Hall, built in 1908, has been for many years a busy, popular and important social hub for the local community of Upper Orara. It has seen countless social dances, cabarets, weddings, birthdays and melodramas in…
LAST week in parliament Federal Member for Cowper Mr Pat Conaghan effected a change in pay disparity for our paralympians on the world stage. He made a speech celebrating Cowper’s four paralympians in the Tokyo Paralympic Games and he…
NORTHERN Beaches residents will soon have another supermarket shopping option, with an Aldi supermarket approved for Moonee Market shopping centre. A development application submitted to Coffs Harbour City Council by Moonee Market shopping centre owner Primewest on 15 April…
LANDCARE on the North Coast is embarking on an Aboriginal engagement program called ‘CountryCare’ which will employ an Aboriginal Landcare Officer – the first such position in the State. “The position of Aboriginal Landcare Officer has been advertised recently…
WEDNESDAY, September 1 was Indigenous Literacy Day, an initiative of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Because of COVID-19, the Foundation hosted a free virtual celebration for all Australians from 9am. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it…
SEVENTEEN minutes was all it took for a Facebook post to the Coffs Harbour community about a GoPro camera, found on Diggers Beach, to find its owners, a UK couple who’d lost it some two years earlier while on…