*The below event has been postponed due to current Covid-19 restrictions. IN response to the growing concern around mental health for young people in the Valley, a collaboration with local services has organised professional surfer Cooper Chapman to host…
IT has been a tough run for the dancers at the Valley Performing Arts Centre, with Covid-19 shutting down all dance studios for months during the 2020 pandemic. It was a time of celebration when the restrictions were finally…
AS News Of The Area sat with Gumbaynggirr elder Uncle Micklo Jarrett having a yarn about NAIDOC Week and the importance of the week in the national calendar, Uncle Micklo exclaimed, “Let’s put the story about how Nambucca got…
THE Nambucca Heads Lion Club changeover dinner was held on the 22 June 2021 at Nambucca Heads RSL club. There were approximately 40 people in attendance, including Nambucca Valley Mayor Rhonda Hoban OAM who provided an entertaining and well…
THEY say one good deed deserves another and that adage certainly rings true in the town of Bowraville. The rural community had already been affected by drought when the devastating bushfires of 2019 saw families lose their homes. When…
THE Coffs Coast Printmakers (CCP) are a friendly group of artists with a passion for learning and promoting traditional and contemporary printmaking, based at the Coffs Harbour Showground Art Gallery. The CCP are joining forces with the New England…
GORDON Rutty isn’t your average man, making the choice some years ago to donate his kidney and become a living donor. “It was an amazing experience,” Gordon said. In order to have this procedure done he needed to go…
BOWRAVILLE Theatre screened Bellingen: The Promised Land documentary on Sunday June 20 which continues its emergence into wider availability. The documentary by Mid North Coast veteran talents, Peter Geddes, former journalist and Bellingen resident in the ‘70s, and Pete…
BREAK-INS at two local businesses and a suspected attempted break-in at a third were reported to police in the days following the June 12 break-in at The Beach House Providore in Valla Beach, which News Of The Area covered…
SUNDAY June 20 was the day the Macksville Country Club gave back to the region’s first responders. Desma Hughes, a Board Member at the Macksville Country Club, searches high and low for any grants the Club can apply for…