DEAR News Of The Area, WITH just a little of the $81 million dollars being spent on council worker headquarters can bus commuters please have some seating in the shade at bus stops either side of Park Avenue. If…
DEAR News Of The Area, Thank you to Karin Matthews for her summary of what some of the Nambucca Valley candidates were standing for in the current election (‘Meet the Candidates’, Karin Matthews, Opinions and Letters, p16, News Of…
DEAR News Of The Area, DUE to the COVID-19 pandemic, my wife and I have not been able to see our young grandsons in the flesh for the past two years. Many families find themselves in the same situation,…
DEAR News Of The Area, THIS was local Labor’s first tilt at the local government election in Bellingen Shire. We have created a base upon which we can grow. In so doing, we learned a lot. We’re appreciative of…
DEAR Jasminda, After 20 years, I still don’t like my partner coming in to talk to me when I am using the bathroom. I feel as though this is a sacred time and space and even though we’ve seen…
WITH Covid, spiralling debt, climate change, and the China issue; interesting times is an understatement. But locally D Day is 4 December, when the residents of this shire will vote to elect a new council. Hopefully we elect a…
DEAR News Of The Area, IF YOU have been down Ridge Street recently you will see that the Small Hall of the Nambucca Community and Arts Centre (NCAC) has been completely demolished. In its short lifetime it served a…
DEAR News Of The Area, ANYONE who has observed fuel prices in the Coffs Harbour region over the past ten or more years will not be surprised there is very little competition amongst the thirteen petrol stations. Prices rise…
DEAR News Of The Area, I TEACH my grandkids about preferential voting by telling them about a family of ten who can only buy one tub of flavoured ice cream. Three in the family want liquorice ice cream, one…
DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in reply to your interview with current Mayor Rhonda Hobin (‘Virtual vs physical: community hub thoughts’, p6, Nambucca Valley News Of The Area, November 26 Edition). I would like to respond with…