WITH the recent spate of disasters including bushfires, floods and COVID-19 heavily impacting the Nambucca Valley, there are many issues weighing on people’s minds. Pat Conaghan, Federal Member for Cowper, says he understands how hard it is for the…
EIGHT-year-old Macksville boy Oliver Hawes was ready to devour his lunch over the Easter long weekend whilst visiting family when his mother Helen Hawes, an enrolled nurse, noticed he wasn’t himself. Ollie had started eating his sausage for lunch…
LOCAL community radio station 2NVR Nambucca Valley Radio is a multiple time winner of the “The Best Little Station In The Nation’ award, and will be celebrating 30 years of broadcasting to the Nambucca community in 2022. News Of…
* Rhys Gleeson is an eighteen-year-old year 12 student from Macksville, who attends Bishop Druitt College in Coffs Harbour. Rhys has joined Nambucca Valley News Of The Area as a Junior Reporter, and over the next few months will…
‘PREPARED for Anything’ is the mantra that the Fire and Rescue NSW Nambucca Heads Station adheres to, and the Open Day on Saturday 15 May at the Station demonstrated the preparedness and commitment of the local team. By mid-morning…
ON Monday 24 May at Valla Beach Reserve, Jaanybarr Giirrwaawa – Men Gather Together, will be having their fortnightly gathering. At the gathering there are ten different Service Providers in attendance, to provide support for the range of different…
THE Oxley Electorate Woman of the Year Award is an award that recognises women who demonstrate excellence in business and society or makes an outstanding contribution personally and professionally. The 2021 winner certainly ticks all of those boxes. On…
THE times remaining for the Nambucca Valley to put their unwanted items out to the curbside for the household bulky goods collection are as follows: May 24: Macksville CBD and North Macksville May 31: Macksville East and South West,…
THE NSW Government has announced it will support 3,000 training places for women in trades to help boost female representation in construction, manufacturing, engineering, transport and logistics. The fee-free Built For Women training program will target women aged 16…
THE Nambucca Valley Recovery Centre is available to all residents in the Valley affected by the March 2021 floods. This centre is located at the Senior Citizens Centre at 37/39 Princess Street, Macksville. It gives locals the opportunity to…