A MOMENTOUS fashion movement making its way through the 1970s and just into the ’80s, centred around Sydney’s Flamingo Park Frock Salon, was the subject of ArtsNational Coffs Coast’s June presentation. It was the shop’s founding era, and the designers…
DES Ahoy, a senior health worker with Galambila Aboriginal Health Services in Coffs Harbour, won the top title in the Yandaarra Aunty Grace Roberts Memorial Community Awards presented at Yarrila Place on Monday 8 July. Receiving the Grace Roberts Memorial…
WHEN Majestic Cinemas shuttered their business in February, company director Kieren Dell cited the “perfect storm” of factors that were rendering traditional cinemas increasingly unfeasible businesses. The effect of three years of social distancing wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic combined…
SHERIFFS from Coffs Harbour, Bellingen and Macksville walked off the job last week, joining colleagues from courthouses in Gosford to the Queensland border and inland to protest against staffing levels and poor pay. In Coffs Harbour, eight sheriffs protested. North…
IN 1969 we landed on the Moon. The astronauts proudly stuck an American flag into the ground. Were they staking a claim to the dusty rock? No, and it wouldn’t have been possible anyway. Just two years earlier, a United…
SHE was the Australian soprano hand-picked by Dame Julie Andrews to play Eliza Doolittle in the 60th-anniversary production of My Fair Lady, now Anna O’Byrne is coming to Coffs Harbour with a show of her own. In Becoming Eliza, at…
THE Kangaroo Bus is coming to town, bringing ease of access to government services and transactions to Aboriginal communities in regional NSW. The bus is a dedicated Service NSW Mobile Service Centre providing drivers licence and vehicle registration renewals, Seniors…
CRACKING good fun, an enthusiastic turnout and gorgeous weather combined to make this year’s 104.1 CHYFM John Townsend Golf Classic a winning day. Held at Coffs Harbour Golf Club on Friday 28 June, the golf day is a major fundraiser…
PATHWAYS from the local high school to the Dorrigo township will be improved through funding from the NSW Government’s Get NSW Active program. “Transport NSW, under the Get NSW Active grants program, has awarded Bellingen Shire Council $358,527.44 to connect…
THIRTEEN community infrastructure projects on the Coffs Coast will go ahead thanks to NSW Government funding of $300,000 through the 2023 Community Building Partnership Program. Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh said this funding will deliver much-needed improvements to local…