MARY Ball from the Nambucca Valley Red Cross Emergency Services Team has recently been awarded the prestigious Distinguished Services Medal by the Red Cross. Mary, who received the award in recognition of her role as Team Leader, was one of…
KEMPSEY Shire Council (KSC) will submit an application to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) to increase property rates by a cumulative 42.7 percent over three years to ‘address financial sustainability and a forecast $79 million deficit over the…
TWO of the Nambucca Valley’s most respected musicians, Julie Kovendy and Dee Bee Bishop, will reunite on Sunday 3 December at the Eungai Creek Soldiers Memorial Hall and deliver an unmissable afternoon concert, all in the name of community. Julie…
NETWORKING opportunities and creating new connections were declared as two winning outcomes from the 60-plus stakeholders who attended the Coffs Agrifood Living Lab (CALL) launch at Yarrila Place on October 25. Facilitated by the CALL project team, Dr Ozgur Dedehayir…
AN ICON of Australian entertainment, Nambucca Valley farm owner and author Bryan Brown has been named as Patron of the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival (BRWF) for 2024. The highly reputed Festival returns to Bellingen Showground on the King’s Birthday…
NAMBUCCA Valley Council has resolved to support a proposal put forward by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment – Heritage NSW to declare the Bellwood Sacred Site in Nambucca Heads an Aboriginal place under the National Parks and Wildlife…
BLUEBERRIES were again on the Nambucca Valley Council meeting agenda last week, with Councillors resolving to examine ways to limit community conflicts and answer growing community concerns on the issue. During public access, councillors and staff heard several members of…
‘In a Timeless Story’ is a picture book presented both in physical form and as an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience – where the reader is invited to step into the world of the book and experience the story all…
THE surging demand for fodder for drought-stricken livestock has come as no surprise to rural charity Rural Aid. The Bureau of Meteorology has declared the three months from August to October as the driest on record since records began in…
ON Thursday evening, Macksville High School hosted ‘Showtime’, an event featuring 650 student performers and crew from Nambucca Valley’s ten public schools. Over 1000 people made up the audience in Macksville High School’s stadium. Advertise with News of The Area…