COFFS Harbour’s Tanya Johnson, the chair and co-founder of local charity Pink Silks Trust, has received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the community through charitable organisations in the Australia Day Awards 2023. Pink Silks…
SALLY Townley has announced that she will contest the 2023 State Election as an Independent candidate for the seat of Coffs Harbour. She officially launched the campaign on Wednesday 8 February at the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden. Advertise with…
WHEN Sawtell Catholic Care’s ‘The Link’ community gardens were named as the best in Australia at the Australian Institute of Horticulture’s (AIH) Awards Ceremony, held in Melbourne late last year, the local residents and Coffs Harbour community missed out on…
A DISTINGUISHED group of ecologists, botanists and environmentalists, with potentially a combined 600 years of professional experience in the realms of the environment, has sent a letter to Regional Roads Minister Sam Farraway MLC and Environment Minister James Griffin regarding…
GREENS Upper House member Cate Faehrmann was in Coffs Harbour last Monday to kick off the Greens campaign for the seat in the upcoming State election. She announced Tim Nott as the Greens candidate for Coffs Harbour, and also discussed…
FABULOUS FAKES, the first exhibition of 2023 at the Coffs Harbour Showground Gallery featuring the Coffs Harbour Creative Arts Group (CHCAG) members, opened on Sunday 5 February. Members and visitors enjoyed light refreshments and contemplated the variety of works and…
RECOGNISED with a Member of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Australia Day Awards, Coffs Harbour resident Elizabeth (Beth) Rogers’ exemplary work has been in service to refugee support services, specifically as a volunteer supporting Burundian refugee families, since…
A REPORT on pesticide contamination of Hearnes Lake has been released with disappointing results. Tony Judge, the Labor candidate for Coffs Harbour, and the report’s author, environmental scientist Maxine Rowley, are calling for urgent action to save Hearnes Lake from…
THE synchronicity of a bunch of blokes joining the Coffs Harbour Men’s Shed, and then finding out there is a wealth of musical talent amongst them, has produced a performing band and a lot of laughs. The Shedmen as the…
INSPIRED by a great outcome from its car boot sale in November 2022, Bonville Sawtell Lions are putting on another such sale on Saturday 11 February with a view to holding them every two months. With over 30 stalls displaying…