Community Events RHIANNON Treasure-Brand, Community Recovery Officer from Nambucca Shire Council has focused on the recovery journey for many people who were affected residents, first responders, and community members who supported the Nambucca Valley during the 2019 bushfires. One event…
DEAR News Of The Area, AT the end of each year, Rotary clubs throughout the world hold their Changeover ceremonies. Traditionally this celebrates each Club’s achievements of the past year and a new leadership team is elected to carry on…
DEAR News Of The Area, I RECENTLY attended a meeting regarding the proposed rejuvenation. However, Coffs Harbour is silting up at a rate of knots. Unless this problem is addressed soon there will be no harbour. This would be a…
DEAR News Of The Area, CONGRATULATIONS to all who took part in the Compass performance at Coffs Harbour High School on Monday evening. How wonderful to see schools from up the coast as far north as Tweed Heads joining together…
DEAR News Of The Area, UNFORTUNATELY, I have to congratulate our new Council for being such fast learners. In only five months they have learnt and are now practising the same tactic that caused the previous Council to be so…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Draft Masterplan for the Jetty Revitalisation gives the Coffs community the opportunity to return our city to its previous position of the tourist capital of the North Coast. With the revitalisation of foreshores which…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN any study looking at changes in the Jetty precinct both specialist expertise and especially everyday knowledge and sentiments need to be considered. Any future development requires coalitions and interventions adapted to the unique situation…
DEAR News Of The Area, I FEEL excited for the vast array of options that the Jetty Foreshore revitalisation draft masterplan offers our growing regional city. We have a great opportunity to have tourist accommodation down there, to help support…
DEAR News Of The Area, THEY ask us to create a vibrant thriving foreshore, but what about Coffs Harbour and surrounding areas that we have completely lost or are lying dormant? Lost: our Civic Centre, our important tourist information centre,…
DEAR News Of The Area, I DON’T know how many toilets Paul Mckeon (‘Harbour foreshores – let’s work on a compromise’, p24, NOTA, 3 June Edition) needs at the Jetty Foreshores, but for more than thirty years there have been…