SWIFF’21, presented again by tailor-made furniture company Ashton Designs, will host a record 120 different sessions to experiences from April 14-29. Here are the highlights: SWIFF Expands to CHEC SWIFF has been growing quickly – nearly 40% every…
ON Wednesday 7 April Minister for Water, Property and Housing Melinda Pavey announced $5 million in stimulus funding would be used to deliver a new public waterfront building at the Jetty Foreshore. The new building would include accommodation for…
IF you cherish the beauty of this place we call home and are ever keen to learn more practical hands-on ideas and tips for living more sustainably that you can put into action, in your own home, then it…
WOMEN’S projects are the focus of funding through the annual NSW Government’s Investing in Women funding program. Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh is encouraging the Coffs Coast to get involved. Local organisations with projects empowering women and promoting…
SOME of us end up in work that we could never have imagined when we were younger. Emily White was a music teacher in Melbourne and Lizzy Rutten was an operating theatre technician and musician in Canberra. Both Lizzy…
CHARLES Burgess was born in Vienna, Austria on March 31, 1917, a year before the end of the First World War, and passed away in Bellingen on April 4 this year, four days after turning 104. In his life…
FIVE bands performed at Red-C Events last weekend as live entertainment on the Coffs Coast shows green shoots of optimism following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. Although there is a long way to go, local bands are seeing an…
GUMBAYNGGIRR elders have set up ‘Camp Nunguu’ in the Newry State Forest, 40 minutes south of Coffs Harbour, in response to Forestry Corporation of NSW plans to log 657 hectares of the native forest. Greens Legislative Council MP, David…
A STATEMENT of Intent signed by all three education sectors on 26 March is the first step in driving cultural change around sexual violence. Government, Catholic and Independent schools have agreed to help drive community and cultural change around…
DID you see Saturday evening’s spectacular, silent lightning storm out to sea against a dark moonless star-filled night sky? Daniel Barty, forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) told The News Of The Area, “The long-lived storm started around…