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…
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…
SPRING is most definitely in the air and as we say goodbye to Winter what can we expect for the coming season? According to Bureau of Meteorology climatologists, Spring in Australia may see more rain than usual in the…
BELLINGEN Vinnies’ team of volunteers has been named as Volunteer Team of the Year in the annual recognition awards run by The Centre for Volunteering. “For the volunteer team at Bellingen Vinnies it is all about helping not only…
THE Australian Federal Police (AFP) is warning community members about a scam involving fake police representatives attempting to con money from the public. AFP switchboard operators have received hundreds of calls in the past couple of months from people…
IN the midst of the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Coffs Harbour local Olivia Jamison received an alarming email from her friend and filmmaker Max Walker. Having produced a hugely successful film, ‘Shereen’, about women in Kabul several years ago,…