DEAR News Of The Area, I WAS compelled to inform the community of a challenge faced by many people regarding the financial cost of keeping pets. Recently Community at 3 was called to the home of an elderly man who…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN NSW we grow timber in State forests. Plantations and native forests are carefully managed to provide a supply of timber today and in the future. There are 500 NSW state forests and these have…
DEAR News Of The Area, I KNOW it is politics, but even so, two recent announcements by Peter Dutton and the LNP exhibit a fundamental lack of logic and poor decision making. On this occasion I am not discussing the…
DEAR News Of The Area, IT is my honour to have very recently been duly elected President of the Hawks Nest Tea Gardens Progress Association (HNTGPA) , at the AGM held on Monday 16 December. I follow in the very…
DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE been one of those who reluctantly accepted “visitors” at this time of year. I do appreciate their presence but do prefer life without their “intrusion”. The families and their little dogs/children have been…
IT’S “Cinema in a Sentence!” again this week with the final big screen drops before Christmas. Anora is being marketed as a “Pretty Woman for the 2020s”, with a story about a young sex-worker (Mikey Madison) being courted by an…
DEAR News Of The Area, ONE of the constants of the Jetty Foreshores project has been the reluctance of the NSW Government to provide meaningful, specific information on the scope and details of their proposal. However, governments cannot hide forever…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE festive season can be a joyous time for many people, as they take a well-earned break from work and school and spend time with family and friends. It’s a time to rest and reset…
DEAR News Of The Area, STATEMENTS made by both Caz Heise and Pat Conaghan regarding veterans and their families published on 13 December 2024 does very little for the issue which they claim to champion. One thing that can be…
I’M constantly surprised by the continual guessing game that respected economists are playing when trying to second guess what the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia might do for her next move with interest rates. A lot of this…