NAMBUCCA Heads High School student Charlotte Battiston has written and self-published her first book. Fourteen-year-old Charlotte, who writes under the pen name Charlie Batt, has written a children’s/young adult fantasy which was published mid-December. Titled ‘Imagine: A Wild Civilisation’,…
HAVE you ever seen a painting in an art gallery and thought “I wonder what that is all about?” If so, here is an opportunity to get to the ‘art’ of it. The Nambucca Valley Art Appreciation Group aims…
IMAGINE starting a business as part of your sea change to find most of your customers quickly consider your business to be a vital service. That is what happened when retired registered nurse Deb Burleigh and former golf pro…
GEORGE Gosson was born in Macksville 1902 and was too young to join brother Frank in the War. He was working in forestry in Gympie when the Second World War broke out. In June 1940 at the age of…
FRANK Gosson was born in Kempsey in 1895 and lived there with his parents, four brothers and two sisters before they moved to Macksville where brother, George, was born. After leaving school Frank worked as a labourer. When war…
ANOTHER Mid North Coast author lands in the burgeoning Local Authors section of Coffs Harbour Book Warehouse thanks to manager Julie Holgate’s keen interest in our region’s writers. “I’m really keen to support local authors and we have a…
LIKE so much of Eastern Australia the Mid North Coast has recently been hit by prolonged periods of rain and winds. Just as the wet has played havoc with so many of the state’s river systems and low lying…
PSYCHOLOGISTS and psychological services are in short supply in rural, remote and regional areas of Australia. As a regional university with strong community ties, Southern Cross is offering a new scholarship to address this problem. Advertise with News of…
THE New South Wales and Australian Governments are inviting councils across New South Wales to apply for $2.1 million in grants under the Recreational Fishing and Camping Facilities Program (the Program). The Program, funded by the Australian Government and…
“WE are so lucky,” Richard Jordan from Bellingen Birders told News Of The Area. “The Coffs Coast is one of the most bird-rich areas of NSW.” Here Richard shares some of the many glorious high points of our local…