APPLICATIONS are closing soon for funding to support activities and events in NSW during NAIDOC Week, celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and achievements. The theme of this year’s NAIDOC is Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!…
NAMBUCCA Valley Libraries have launched an Imagination Library, an initiative which delivers free quality books to children in the first five years of their life. Babies born from 1 January 2022 are eligible to be enrolled in the program.…
FRIDAY 13 May is the closing date for applications for Nambucca Valley businesses to access the final Destination North Coast Business Accelerator and Mentoring program. Highly valued by past recipients, this program is free of charge, being fully funded…
VETERANS across NSW will be honoured through traditional Anzac Day commemorative services as 2022 heralds the return of full-scale dawn services and marches, while two-up will be played over three days during the Anzac Day long weekend, and veterans,…
POKIES in the Nambucca Valley made an average net profit of more than $900,000 per month in 2021, according to reports from Liquor & Gaming NSW. The Gaming Machine Data reports show a total net profit of just over…
IS resilience an overused word? It certainly describes the sheer magnitude of what the communities of the Mid North Coast have had to find from the ravages of bushfires, Covid and now floods. Advertise with News of The Area…
– ON 28 March 2022 Police arrested a 31-year-old man at a Macksville address who was wanted on two outstanding warrants and who had been committing further offences whilst avoiding apprehension. During the incident the accused man became violent…
LAST Tuesday saw Bowraville Central School out in colour for their annual Easter Hat Parade. The local community lined High Street to cheer students, teachers and carers as they marched along in their brightly coloured hats. Bowraville Central School…
THE Nambucca Heads Bowling Club turned disaster into triumph last week when it officially opened its new synthetic bowling green. They originally switched to synthetic greens in 2006 in order to save on the costs of green-keeping that were…
LOCALS and visitors to the Nambucca Valley are in for a night of beautiful music, absolutely free of charge on Friday 15 April (Good Friday) when Nambucca Valley Radio’s Studio 3 Live presents Riverbed Bloomers. This fabulous duo hail…