DEAR News Of The Area, LAST week the Sydney Morning Herald ran an investigative series on what went wrong at Barangaroo, Sydney’s biggest urban renewal project to date. It found that over many years the interests of the developer and…
DEAR News Of The Area, LOCAL issues include a housing shortage, affordability issues and a rental crisis – as well as logging protests. We have evolved from a generation of individual responsibility, that worked, saved and didn’t waste, to the…
LET’S talk development applications (DAs). This is a really challenging space for every Councillor because with every decision on a contentious DA that comes to Councillors for assessment there are winners and losers. The aspect of being a Councillor that…
DEAR News Of The Area, At last! A voice of sanity regarding the Civic and Cultural Centre (Yarrila). Thank you, Aloisia Fenyes, I thought I was a voice crying in the wilderness. I have supported the Gordon Street project from…
TELLING the incredible stories of Port Stephens and the Myall Coast is what News Of The Area (NOTA) is all about. The independently-owned NOTA has had a presence in the region for decades and is proud to keep locals up…
DEAR News Of The Area, I READ with astonishment Cr Rodger Pryce’s letter in Coffs Coast NOTA on October 7 telling us that the ‘revitalisation’ of the Jetty Foreshores would result in more open space than is currently there at…
DEAR News Of The Area, I WAS disappointed and concerned to read about the deferral of the redevelopment of the Woolgoolga and Sawtell swimming pools in the Coffs Coast NOTA on 7 October. I actually live near the centre of…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE proposed $5 million Nambucca Library upgrade would fund a reinstated Nambucca Neighbourhood Centre for the next ten years. The $5 million grant monies therefore should set a precedent for community not-for-profit facilities in this…
Emergency Ready Week On 27 September the Nambucca Valley Australian Red Cross Emergency Services team hosted a free, drop-in emergency preparedness information event for our Get Ready Week at the Red Cross Teahouse in Bowra Street. The team displayed a…
DEAR News Of The Area, WHILST the most pressing need in Coffs Harbour was for an Entertainment Centre the ratepayers have been saddled with a huge debt for many years to come paying for a Civic Centre which should have…