OPINION: Please find a soft plastics solution!

DEAR News Of The Area, I PUT my red bin out this morning. It has never been so full since we stopped recycling our soft plastics. We have the worm food tub, the green waste tub, the recycle tub and…

DEAR News Of The Area, I PUT my red bin out this morning. It has never been so full since we stopped recycling our soft plastics. We have the worm food tub, the green waste tub, the recycle tub and…

DEAR News Of The Area, WHEN my late dad was born in 1927, the global population had reached a staggering two billion. It had taken all of human history up until 1800 to reach one billion, and then only another…

DEAR News Of The Area, I wish to congratulate last issue contributors. I agree with R Tindale that the Council’s “plan is truly visionary – what Coffs residents want at the Jetty foreshore.” Perhaps we need a State Member more…

DEAR News Of The Area, IT seems like all out bloody war has broken out with the National party executive announcing their opposition to ‘the Voice to Parliament’. Divisions are occurring within the National party on a personal and State…

DEAR News Of The Area, A regular visitor to Myall Street, Tea Gardens, is an unmarked white sedan with a ‘Radar Speed Check’ placard on the roof. One day there was one on each side of the road. The hours…

DEAR News Of The Area, ASHLEY Love and Charlie England’s letters in NOTA 25/11/11 regarding the pending destruction of Grandpa’s Scrub, a 0.5ha remnant of unique Lowland Rainforest on the edge of the Bypass alignment reveals the irony and double…

DEAR News Of The Area, Here is my open letter to Gurmesh Singh MP. Dear Mr Singh, I fully support the vision plan for the jetty foreshores as proposed by the City Of Coffs Harbour Council and recently published in…

DEAR News Of The Area, AT the last Council election, none of the candidates now sitting in Council Chambers gave any indication that they opposed the harbour foreshores development. Now we have the majority of Councillors not only opposing it,…

DEAR News Of The Area, I SEE the debate between the Mayor and our local MP is heating up. Pro-development with commercial at the forefront represents profit for the Government and developers. Development with community recreation at the forefront represents…

DEAR News Of The Area, THANKS to the NOTA for highlighting the need to save this unique piece of our environment. I note that Transport for NSW says it may try to remove only part of it and divert the…