WHAT a slap in the face for the State Government to postpone our elections to December when they are well aware of how the majority of the people of Coffs Harbour feel about the council. All the letters and…
DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIA joined its allies in the Middle East after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States. On 11 July 2021, I confirmed that after twenty years, all Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel had…
WITH the Greater Sydney area still in lockdown, Port Stephens Mayor Ryan Palmer is putting the call out to locals from the Hunter and beyond to head to Port Stephens for a covid-safe weekend. Mr Palmer said that while…
AUSTRALIAN author Fiona McArthur, perhaps better known in the Nambucca and Macleay Valley as the wonderful midwife Fiona Simpson, who has caught more local babies in her thirty-year career than she could possibly keep count of. Catching babies isn’t…
DEAR News Of The Area, As an 11 year old in 1958, reading my dad’s paper, I was alarmed by a scientist’s warning of imminent global warming. Digging and drilling subterranean carbon, burning the same, and expelling CO2 into…
TEA Gardens resident Ann Woods took this photo at the end of June. “Winter is a wonderful time for sunsets and our beaches and the bridge often provide great viewing platforms,” Ann said. “I’d been to Winda Woppa and…
DEAR News Of The Area, THERE is currently a campaign against bullying airing on television, which includes as an example of bullying, the sending of multiple emails to a recipient. And what have we got the Coffs Coast Climate…
DEAR News Of The Area, I READ with interest the article (Affordable housing debate continues at Council, Coffs Coast News Of The Area, p4, July 2 Edition) regarding the Coffs City Council requesting a report on a budget allocation…
JUST as things were freeing up it’s “here we go again!”. Masks are mandatory inside retail establishments, number restrictions in homes are in place and of course, the cancellation of Progress Association and Reference Group meetings. Unfortunately, our presentations…
Residential Flat Building – Hawks Nest Council did not approve the development and the proponent appealed the refusal in the Land and Environment Court. The matter was listed for a directions hearing on 23 March 2020. At the directions…