GARY Cattanach is Aboriginal teacher and artist at Nambucca High School. He is currently performing his latest song at a diverse range of venues. Called ‘Raise Your Hands’ the song is pure positivity about the ‘yes’ vote for Australians. Advertise…
ENTREPRENEURSHIP is being introduced to school students as an exciting career path to consider. Through the Regional Youth Entrepreneurism Activation Program, students are attending interactive workshops at their school facilitated by The Scale Institute and funded by Investment NSW. Advertise…
CONCEIVED as an aid to help visualise catchment-wide disasters and their effects, the remarkable ‘Big Map’ was on display at Kempsey’s Slim Dusty Centre last week. Encouraging communities to become safer and stronger via engagement was a driving force of…
IT all began with a basic inquiry on local social media pages and now a collection of enthusiastic individuals from the Stuarts Point and Yarrahapinni district have agreed to gather for casual sessions of visual art creativity. It started with…
GUMBAYNGGIRR Elders and Coffs Coast conservationists are despairing at the latest logging by Forestry Corporation NSW (FCNSW). Newry State Forest west of Valla, between Urunga and Macksville, which Elders and conservationists say supports nationally-significant colonies of koalas and greater gliders,…
AN impassioned plea from builders, insurers and planners to stop homes being built on floodplains has landed with state government. An urgent statewide overhaul of planning laws is needed, representative bodies of each group say, and state government must not…
MOBILE phone communications should now be better around South Arm. Via Nambucca Valley Council almost $1 million has been spent using state and federal funds to build a new ‘macro base tower’ on South Arm Rd. Advertise with News of…
A $750,000 reward for information regarding the disappearance of Rose Howell has been issued by the government. Rose Howell, then aged 18, was last seen about 6.15pm on Friday 11 April 2003 walking east along Perry’s Road, Repton, in the…
THERE is an old saying that goes, ‘You don’t know what you have until it’s gone’, such was the case over the many months of necessary renovation time that has occurred at the Nambucca Community & Arts Centre in Ridge…
VULNERABLE people in their homes are getting more help to prepare for emergencies. Meals on Wheels NSW has developed a toolkit called ACT!, in conjunction with emergency services and representatives of in-home care organisations and the University of Sydney. Advertise…