POPULAR Scott’s Head cafe-restaurant Scotts Hub will host a much anticipated intimate solo concert by world-travelled musician and composer Paul Fogarty on August 20. It’s almost a year since prolific singer-songwriter Paul Fogarty moved his family from Europe back home…
DURING recent Covid-19 lockdowns Christopher Robinson took the opportunity to utilise his many skills, vision and local home workshop by sourcing and resurrecting broken and abandoned bikes of all shapes and sizes. “After noticing many discarded bikes on the side…
LOCAL musician Deebee Bishop is celebrating 40 years as a professional musician this month. Leaving school at the early age of fifteen years Deebee started an apprenticeship as a ship’s carpenter and went to Ultimo College in Sydney. Advertise with…
GREENS MLC Cate Faehrmann, the party’s planning spokesperson, has recently been touring the Mid North Coast on a fact-finding mission, meeting with communities who believe they are under threat from inappropriate building developments. Last week Ms Faehrmann travelled from Yamba…
SEVERE weather and flooding across the Nambucca Valley was declared a natural disaster on Friday, with jointly funded Commonwealth-State disaster assistance now available to residents within the Local Government Area. Assistance was also extended to the LGAs of Cumberland, Mid…
U3A NAMBUCCA Valley held a very successful Open Day on Tuesday 5 July with a number of new people joining, bringing the membership up to 313. Lots of attendees met the course leaders and signed up for upcoming classes. It…
IT’S free, it’s online and it starts on Monday 18 July. Get your kit on for the Healthy and Active Living Online (HALO) program now available for people aged 60 years and over, and Aboriginal people aged 45 years and…
THE inaugural River Sounds festival is finally upon us after three false starts due to Covid impacts. With six weeks to go until the gates open, let’s explore the stellar lineup at this resilient event. Advertise with News of The…
LOCAL dairy farmer and beekeeper Ron Purkiss turns 90 years this Saturday, still living in Eungai Creek as he has done for the last 40 years. Ron is a well known resident in the area for his big heart, helping…
NOT-FOR-PROFIT organisations in remote, rural and regional areas that are running programs which build prosperity in their community are being called to apply for ANZ’s Seeds of Renewal grants. With an overall funding pot of $250,000, the individual grants provide…