THE Environmental Defenders Office, on behalf of the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA), is challenging the North East Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) in the Federal Court. The NEFA was signed in 1999 and renewed for another 20 years, without…
THE Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) based at SCU Coffs Harbour has appointed ex-mentee Georgia Elliott to take over the reins to head up the Coffs site. AIME IMAGI-NATION Coffs Harbour’s President Georgia is a proud Wiradjuri woman and…
ABCARE delivered its first National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day Celebration on Sunday 8 August at Coffs’ Park Beach Reserve. Children’s Day 2021 was officially celebrated mid-week, on August 4; but with the kids at school the…
A GRANT of $100,000 will enable the Westside Tennis Club to renovate one of it’s nine courts to top condition. Court number six is currently suffering from an uneven surface, making play somewhat difficult due to unpredictable ball movement…
STILL: National Still Life Award 2021 exhibition, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery’s signature art prize, opens on Saturday 14 August. Adapting to a new, virtual reality in a pandemic, the ultimate winner of the $30,000 art prize will be announced…
COFFS Harbour showgrounds have secured State Government funding of $3.2M for a major upgrade and extensions to the Exhibition Pavilion. The upgrade will include a new entry area, extending the main hall on the western side by a third…
FORESTRY Corporation is currently collecting seeds in Wedding Bells State Forest to help grow a million native seedlings to replant 1,000 hectares of hardwood timber plantations in State Forests on the north coast next year. The Corporation’s Hardwood Plantation…
THE July edition of the Probus Club of Coffs Harbour Bulletin marked 400 continuous issues, with the original published on April 29,1985. The Club marked the occasion by inviting Coffs Coast News Of The Area (CCNOTA) to speak to…
ON Thursday August 5 the South Coffs Community Garden celebrated five years since receiving their operating licence from Coffs Harbour City Council. The gardens, located in Bruce King Drive at Boambee East, offer spaces for the community to grow…
FIFTY years of arty activities in the Showground Art Gallery was celebrated on Saturday 7 August by the Coffs Harbour Creative Arts Group (CHCAG). “It’s actually 50-plus-one years, thanks to COVID’s postponement last year,” Isabella Brandli, speaking on behalf…