INCLEMENT weather couldn’t dampen the spirits of Scotts Head residents last Saturday. Approximately 100 people attended the ‘Save Our Village’ rally held at the Recreation Hut Scotts Head Reserve. The feelings of Scotts Head residents were made very clear…
STATEWIDE on Tuesday 15 February nurses and midwives walked off the job to demand that the staffing crisis in public hospitals be resolved. Across NSW the strike action took place in 150 public hospitals and health services. Life-preserving services…
PARENTS and carers of teenagers are being invited to join a free webinar series run by headspace that gives support strategies to help them navigate the ups and downs of teenage mental health. As the National Youth Mental Health…
OzGREEN’S Resilient Communities Volunteer Facilitators are ready to commence training and locations have been selected for the 2022 roll out of the program. During February facilitators will be mentored through the program readying them to deliver to their groups…
NAMBUCCA Heads Men’s Shed (NHMS) is working with the Community Power Agency to investigate possible options for renewable energy that will help to strengthen local not-for-profit organisations, lower their electricity bills and make them more sustainable into the future.…
WORKERS in designated industries including manufacturing, agriculture, transport, and emergency services have been given an exemption from current public health orders which mandate self-isolation if you become a close contact of a Covid-19 case. A new exemption to the…
IMAGINE starting a business as part of your sea change to find most of your customers quickly consider your business to be a vital service. That is what happened when retired registered nurse Deb Burleigh and former golf pro…
CRYSTAL Vowels, Scotts Head mum of Avalon, 12 and Sandon, 10, who is passionate about giving her kids the opportunities they seek out, took the kids to Coffs Harbour for the annual KOBBAS Skatefest in early December. “This was…
HIGH Street Bowraville was alive with locals and visitors on Saturday 11 December for the Bowraville Christmas Markets. Sunshine was an added bonus to the day’s festivities making the markets an all-round crowd pleaser. Stalls consisted of homegrown local…
A WHALE preservation charity will fund Australia’s first Indigenous-run marine plastic recycling enterprise, transforming waste plastic into objects of desire. Gowings Whale Trust, the NFP environmental organisation started by Gowings, is financing the MiiMi Aboriginal Corporation to run a…