SENIOR high school students will be able to study new virtual vocational courses from next year, with courses such as Robotics to be offered in public high schools. Real estate, robotics and entrepreneurship are just some of the twenty…
SAWTELL entrepreneur and young business owner Vayda Maher has been repurposing dead stock inventory that doesn’t turn over, into stock with new life. Vayda grew up in Bellingen and is living and working in Sawtell on her business VayKay…
WITH the Covid pandemic wreaking havoc all over the world and Coffs Harbour included, it comes as no surprise that it’s been an incredibly tough year for entertainers and everyone involved in the entertainment industry. Local entertainment agency John…
LAST week, more than ten Sawtell residents last week found an eight-page letter outside their front door or in their letter boxes. The letter began with ‘This is a spiritual war for our souls’ and heavily referenced the Bible.…
THE COFFS Harbour Business Women’s Network (BWN) has launched into 2021 with a new rebrand, events calendar launch and new membership model. On Thursday February 25 the group met for the first time this year and only the second…
COFFS Harbour City Councillors recently endorsed the first year update of Council’s Bushfire Recovery Action Plan 2020-2022, which summarises Council’s response to the bushfire crisis in the region in late 2019 and outlines the recovery process for bushfire affected…
SYDNEY-BASED writer and teacher Betty O’Neill will present her debut memoir ‘The Other Side of Absence’ at Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Coffs Harbour on Wednesday 3 March from 6pm to 7.30pm. The free event will see Betty discuss her…
AFTER more than 70 years of existence as an iconic beachside building, the former Woolgoolga Surf Life Saving Club was physically demolished on Friday 12 February. Coffs Harbour Demolitions undertook the demolition of the former surf lifesaving club, which…
A MAN has died at a Woolgoolga bus stop around noon on Friday 12 February as a result of a medical incident. The medical incident, believed to be a cardiac arrest, occurred at the bus stop located alongside Woolgoolga…
WOOLGOOLGA’S highly anticipated new $23.1m multipurpose sporting facility will be officially named Wiigulga Sports Complex, in honour of the local area’s Gumbaynggirr heritage and culture. Wiigulga, pronounced Wee-gill-gah, is the original name for Woolgoolga, and refers to the black…