DEAR News Of The Area, THESE past days, thousands of people in Lismore have lost everything in record breaking floods. Three months ago, households across our own region suffered thousands of dollars’ worth of damage from a freak, supercell…
DEAR News Of The Area, WHEN the Toormina shopping centre was severely damaged by a devastating hail storm last October (it’s still not fully operational) our local Federal MP Pat Conaghan suggested this was not the result of climate…
DEAR News Of The Area, ‘GRANT’ season has commenced and of course conveniently coincides with ‘election’ season. This fortnight, funds appear for planting trees on newly cleared land for a 25-year future harvest. There is (NSW) flood money for…
DEAR News Of The Area, I READ with interest, a recent article (‘Landmark State-Federal Agreement To Build Dozens Of Local Affordable Homes’, Paul Fogarty, p9, February 11 Edition) regarding new low-income housing in our local area. State Member for…
DEAR News Of The Area, I WAS privileged along with other folk to attend the memorial service for the late Miriam Rullis on Friday 4 March at the C.ex Club. At the entrance we were presented with a gift…
DEAR News Of The Area, I READ with interest Trevor Harrington’s verse ‘For a Community Voice’ (p22, Coffs Coast NOTA 4 March Edition) and a number of lines caught my attention. They were: “How can we close our eyes…
DEAR News Of The Area, NOT long back Woolgoolga beach front had a perfectly good public toilet block which included perfectly good change rooms and showers. Council decided on an ‘upgrade’ was needed and built a rather ugly block…
DEAR News Of The Area, NIGHT after night, we watch the unfolding horror of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on our screens. The sight of innocent civilians, mostly women and children, fleeing towards the Polish border, whilst their towns…
DEAR locals, IT has now been two months since the local election, and I wanted to acknowledge and sincerely thank the many locals (2000+) for your support. It was a very challenging time but positive change was achieved and…
DEAR News Of The Area, IT is amazing to see that after all the floods along the East Coast, the Hunter Central Coast Joint Regional Planning Panel is still considering a 691 residential lot subdivision of the wetlands in…