Karen Filewood’s 2022 in Review
ANOTHER year has flown past full of ups and downs, with all sorts of articles brought to you by the dedicated team at News Of The Area. And what a year it has been! While the newspaper continues to provide…
Category Opinion
OPINION: Kind-hearted Coffs Harbour people
DEAR News Of The Area My wife and I took a Christmas Day drive out beyond Englands road. Somewhere near Landrigans trail we became hopelessly bogged. A call to NRMA informed us that no rescue service was available on unregistered…
OPINION: Keep politics out of local government
DEAR News Of The Area, AFTER reading both articles featuring Cr Jonathan Cassells in News Of The Area Coffs Coast on 16 December 22, I am greatly disturbed that this Councillor and his factions are politicising our Council. Councils are…
OPINION: Grandpa’s Scrub
DEAR News Of The Area I am astounded at the blatant disregard for the health of the forests and their inhabitants around the Coffs Harbour area. After reading the article entitled “Transport for NSW on offsets” in the December 30,…
OPINION: Fuel price rip off
DEAR News Of The Area Once again or should I say we are still being ripped off by Coffs Harbour service stations. I use diesel fuel in my vehicle and have just returned from a long trip in the country.…
NSW Schools Spectacular starring role for Casey Alexander
DEAR News Of The Area CONGRATULATIONS to Casey Alexander of the Coffs Harbour Senior College for his starring role in the recent NSW Schools Spectacular. It is always an excellent Production but it was even better this year with one…
OPINION: Active participation in the formulation of policy
DEAR News Of The Area, PETER Weyling’s thoughtful letter (Voice to Parliament, 16 December 2022) struck a chord with me. It is true that in members of parliament like Linda Burnie and Pat Dodson we have impeccable statespersons. It is…
OPINION: Small section of V Wall at Nambucca Heads
DEAR News Of The Area, For over the last two years I have been asking Council to follow-up on what can be done to restore the small section of V Wall at Nambucca Heads, because of sediment and rocks that…
OPINION: Changes in the social ethos of society
DEAR News Of The Area, I AM 90 years of age and have experienced the unprecedented change between both the pre-and-post social ethos. Christmas was all about moral character and community, not consumerism, to World War II. The common national…
Jimmy’s Beach Sand Renourishment
Dear News of the Area, IT was interesting to see MidCoast Council’s Robert Scott describe the $4.1 million Winda Woppa sand transfer system as “a trial of using pumps to take sand“ from the Winda Woppa stockpile to Jimmy’s Beach.…