OUR library network is one of the Shire’s most popular community assets and that is why Council continues to invest in their emerging roles as community hubs - places where people, information, ideas, creativity, and technology are brought together. So it’s fantastic news for Dorrigo locals that a recent grant submission

  DEAR News Of The Area, THE main purpose as I see it and possibly the original purpose of councils is to provide services to the ratepayers and the community in its basic forms namely water, roads, parks and gardens, and most importantly, garbage collection and waste disposal. Councils are duty bound to

  DEAR News of the Area OH dear, just when I thought I could trust the scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and NASA, W Duesbury tells me I'm mistaken. W Duesbury tells me that "the IPCC model's predicted temperatures are well in excess of the reality observed by meteorological

  DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to thank Duesbury for highlighting the proof of theory by Wegener on Continental Drift. Science has always been the final arbiter on theories by the collection of data and applying it to the theory, not once but many times, resulting in repeatability. This is the

  DEAR News of the Area, W DUESBURY’S letters regarding climate change (28/5/21 and 11/6/21) have a fundamental problem in that the temperature data has not been accurately represented in these letters. It is claimed that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) previously failed to adequately model temperatures that were consistent with

  IN May of 2021, Macksville’s Tamara McWilliam took on the latest challenge in her writing career, signing on as a reporter for the inaugural editions of Nambucca Valley News Of The Area. However, Tamara started her writing career with a detox book. “It seemed like the natural thing to do at the

  DEAR News Of The Area, I AM replying to a letter from W Duesbury (‘Scientists Are Not Infallible’, p38, NOTA, 11/6/21). W Duesbury is a frequent contributor with their views on climate change. These views I would propose, fall into the category of climate change denial. I would generally ignore the opinions expressed but,

  DEAR News Of The Area, IT was Wednesday 25 May, the day for our craft groups’ Biggest Morning Tea in support of the Cancer Council, at the Hawks Nest Community Hall. The tables in their white gowns are under stress with goodies and the best china is out of hiding. The donation box

  FOLLOWING recommendations from another interested land investor, William Sare, Jorgan ‘John’ Peterson, Robert Fuller, George Shepherd and William Wingfield teamed up to apply for their conditional purchase of land. The four of them travelled together to Kempsey to arrange their conditional purchases on 3 February 1881, the government gazette recording them

  DEAR News Of The Area, P MEIN’S response (‘Dollar Savings Galore’, p30, NOTA 4/6/21) to my letter (‘What Climate Emergency’, p33, NOTA 28/5/21) is a perfect illustration of the point I wished to make. It is irrelevant to P Mein that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) model’s predicted temperatures are