DORRIGO Urunga Bellingen Bicycle Users Group (DUBBUG) recently celebrated another active cyclist member joining the 80s Chapter. “This significant chapter is exclusively for cyclists, aged over 80, who remain active with the club, and are recognised as participating in…
DORRIGO Rainforest Centre Exhibition Space is hosting the Natural Diversity exhibition – a collaboration between five local artists. Carole Helman told News Of The Area, “Our work celebrates the joy nature’s beauty inspires in us. “Fascination with the natural…
COFFS Harbour relatives of Mindat residents in Chin State, Myanmar, were distressed to learn the Burmese Military had taken over the township state this week. Like residents in some other towns, Mindat locals had risen up against the military…
BELLINGEN Market on Saturday May 15 was going batty. With education at the centre of the ‘batty-ness’, the appearance of live Grey-headed flying-foxes was part of a two-week program visiting schools and meeting the public in the Coffs region.…
A LACK of affordable housing and social housing in the Coffs Harbour local government area has led Coffs Harbour City Council to investigate how it can help address the issue. Cr Sally Townley has called on Council to ‘“play…
DAVID Mann, the urbane and ever affable proprietor of the Olde Memories and Treasures antique store on the corner of Orlando and Collingwood streets has announced that the shop will be closing and that he will be moving on…
BUSH ‘n’ Beach Orienteering Club started their winter season with a successful event at Bom Bom State Forest earlier in May. Event organiser Bruce Meder said, “It was great to be back orienteering in the bush. “The forest was…
THERE’S a group of visionary movers and shakers setting their sights on reigniting Coffs Harbour CBD to a thriving town centre that locals want to work and socialise in, as well as attracting interesting, diverse and go-ahead entrepreneurs, businesses…
THE HUGEST thank you expressible is the message coming from Mylestom’s CPSA (Combined Pensioners & Superannuants Association), for the support of their recent Biggest Morning Tea raising $18,053 for The Cancer Council. Maureen Heelis, Treasurer for the Mylestom CPSA,…
COFFS Harbour City councillors have voted to increase their annual wages by two percent for the 2021/22 financial year. The Local Government Remuneration Tribunal recently made its annual determination of categories of councils and the maximum and minimum fees…