DEAR News Of The Area, It is sad to see what is left of our lovely recycled walkway and small jetty right in full view of the Dolphin Marine Conservation Park. We started with a small hole two years…
Congratulations to Local Tradies IT was great to be back on the Wiigulga Sports Complex site recently to mark the start of major works. It was also an opportunity to again underline the significance of the local Gumbaynggirr culture…
DEAR News Of The Area, IT seems everyone has a favourite story when it comes to poor Council decision making here in our Coffs LGA. We probably need to recognize however, that despite all their best efforts to make…
DEAR News Of The Area, IT is of great concern the number of pushbike riders using the footpath in Ocean Parade. Adult cyclists need to be reminded that unless it’s a shared path, the law is that an adult…
DEAR News Of The Area, GEOFF Delaney (Port Stephens News Of The Area, Fish Killing Frenzy on Fingal Bay, p6, April 22 Edition) please don’t feel like that about the mullet catch. Beach hauling is legal. The fishermen are…
DEAR News Of The Area, AS Australians we have seen many developments in the last few months highlighting the patriarchy which too often works to the disadvantage of women and we are all familiar with the script which underpins…
DEAR News Of The Area, AT the last Council election, a newspaper headline read ‘STOP THE STINK’. Councillors were elected but nothing stopped the stink. In fact very little has happened over the past sixteen years to stop the…
Carroll’s Conditional Purchase FROM the north, Corinda (Corindi) and Weelgoolga (Woolgoolga) marked the southernmost coastal extent of Grafton’s pastoral runs. Initially, these runs were largely the domain of pastoralists or capitalists who had the finances or support to provide…
NO good deed goes unrewarded… unless Tara is a motoring enthusiast, her pride and joy being a cherry-red 1969 Ford Mustang. One day, local hooligans break into her garage and they are off for the joy-ride of their lives!…
DEAR News Of the Area, THE handful of people calling themselves The Coffs Coast Climate Action Group (CCCAG) say that, “Gas is a dirty fossil fuel which makes climate extremes worse” (‘Climate Group Asks For Answers’, News Of The…