DEAR News Of The Area, THIS Council has found another way of wasting rate payers money and not focusing on core issues like maintaining the roads and other infrastructure. They have approved a motion put forward by Cr Cassell to…
DEAR News Of The Area Over the past few years, ‘Please be kind’ signs have become common around us. We’ve been asked to be kind to retail staff. To be kind to people serving us food. Or to be kind…
DEAR News Of The Area I AM outraged at the excessive cost that we in Coffs Harbour are forced to pay for motor vehicle fuel. Having just driven through a large portion of NSW over the Christmas holiday period I…
DEAR News Of The Area, About three months ago I had a fall and broke my wrist. I had excellent immediate treatment at Coffs Harbour Health Campus. I was told that I would need surgery that day. It took thirteen…
I’D been reading the local paper, NOTA Nambucca Valley, since I moved here to Fishermans Reach in January 2021, and before that I always read local papers, the folding kind. In July this year I took a leap of faith…
QUITE out of the blue the publisher contacts me and asks if I’d be interested in reporting for Myall Coast News Of The Area. It’s been a number of years since I’d last been involved in print journalism so I…
THURSDAY October 6 2016 saw the official launch of News Of The Area in the Bay, and I was very honoured to be one of the original reporters for the newspaper. Since those humble beginnings I have seen the News…
AS we bid farewell to 2022 I can’t help but think about the year and the important issues that I have shared with my local community through the NOTA. I can say with some pride that I write for a…
DEAR News Of The Area, Most interesting to read “local bushie” Darcy Browning’s observations and reflections upon koalas within the proposed Headwaters Nature Reserve (covering all the public native forests across the Bellinger, Kalang and Nambucca River headwaters) and within…
DEAR News Of The Area, AS a regular reader of your publication, I have noticed that there is a recurring theme in both your articles and correspondence from readers. This theme is the public’s dissatisfaction with the consultation processes used…