ALMOST 100 passengers boarded the ‘Rainforest Rattler’ for the first of two CANDO! Cancer Trust dinner trips last Friday, January 6. Guests wined, dined and chatted during a leisurely return trip to Grafton to support the Trust’s work in assisting…
ITS rapidly rotting condition has required the Moonee Beach Pedestrian Bridge, which links Moonee Beach to Green Bluff, to be closed for repairs since 11 November 2022. Having deteriorated in parts, the decision was made to close the bridge for…
THE campaign for a Great Koala National Park (GKNP) has been buoyed by the success of the recent NSW koala Conference held in Coffs Harbour on October 29. The National Parks Association of NSW, which is coordinating the campaign, has…
THE Refugee Learner Drivers program, run by the Australian Red Cross in Coffs Harbour, celebrated its five-year milestone on Wednesday 30 November. Some 20 past participants, a handful of current learners, volunteers, stakeholders, Red Cross leadership and donor representatives gathered…
HOLIDAY season is just around the corner so it was perfect timing for the water safety education sessions held last Saturday at Coffs Jetty and the Coffs Harbour Surf Life Saving Club. The education seminars were popular with locals and…
JIM Munro has spent 50 years at sea, 30 of them dredging in harbours in Australia, the Middle East and Asia. He told News Of The Area that back in 1995, when he was dredging at Tweed Heads, it was…
ONE hundred years of service to the SES between them, fifteen volunteers received sixteen awards at a recognition ceremony officiated by NSW SES Commissioner Carlene York APM on Sunday, 20 November at Coffs Harbour Golf Club. Also on hand to…
WOOLGOOLGA residents continue to question the safety and sense of the trial cycleway installed in August 2022 along Beach Street. “It seems the Mayor of Coffs Harbour is keen to salvage from the Woolgoolga cycleway ‘debikel’ a new footpath for…
CITY of Coffs Harbour is to develop a waste transfer facility capable of separating local domestic and commercial waste and processing it on-site or transferring the different materials to relevant operators within the region and beyond. The approach was recommended…
COFFS Harbour Yacht Club voted in its new Board for the next twelve months at the Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, 18 October. John Wait was elected as Commodore, Richard Hinton as General Manager, and Garth McGilvray, Michael Haulville, Des…