DEAR News Of The Area, Further to the letter by John Clarke of Fingal Bay I would like to offer a possible solution to the jetski problem in Port Stephens, in particular over the Christmas/New Year holiday period. However I…
DEAR News Of The Area, I WROTE to the paper a few years ago about the spiralling price of clothing in op-shops. Since then, they have continued to increase prices, including those that were always reasonable before. In last week’s…
DEAR News Of The Area, I am amused that Bruce Murray (NOTA 16 January 2025) is again spouting nuclear power fantasies, claiming that Australia could build 6 GW of nuclear power for only $A 60 billion ($A 10,000/kW). Meanwhile, back…
DEAR News Of The Area, LAST week, whilst driving in a 60km zone on Solitary Islands Way near Woolgoolga High School, I saw a stunned kookaburra sitting about 300cm from the centre line of the road. As safely as I…
THIS week’s slate of releases seem decidedly “18+”, with adult thrillers, a Chinese epic and an inscrutable comic-book adaptation from Japan. Babygirl is a grown-up drama/thriller from Dutch actor and filmmaker Halina Reijn, starring Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas and Harris…
BORN in 1868 at Vegetable Creek (Emmaville) to Daniel and Elizabeth Levy, William ‘Bill’ Maurice Levy resided for over forty years in the Coffs Harbour district. On 3 December 1896 at Coramba, he married Hannah Knox and had five sons…
DEAR News Of The Area, AFTER three attempts to get my 81-year-old husband into hospital, a specialist doctor advised I phone for an ambulance again this morning and have him admitted, where he would be able to give him the…
Dear News of the Area, I RESPOND to the letter by Wayne Duesbury, “More misrepresentation of facts” (NOTA 17/1/2025), in which he accuses me of “a glaring misrepresentation” and “resorting to devious tactics to support an argument” . I had…
DEAR News Of The Area, I naively went to a bank at the Park Beach Plaza to purchase some US dollars for tips for a planned cruise in December. I was expecting to front up to the cashier, put in…
DEAR News Of The Area, REGARDING a letter from Con Van Darrel of Sawtell (Friday 17/1/25), “The privilege of being Aussie”, this little letter should be published in very large print on the front page of your paper if you…