DEAR News Of The Area, CAN we have a conversation about a disturbing subject? Can we talk about the naming of the Boolumbahtee river? Many people know it as the Manning River. When Robert Dawson named the river after William…
I WOULD like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. As we approach the end of the year and families head off on holidays, I would just like to remind everyone to be safe, make sure…
TO avoid filling a whole page with the veritable avalanche of films being released, this week we present “Cinema in a Sentence”. Piece By Piece is a biopic of superstar singer/songwriter Pharell Williams featuring interviews with Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar,…
DEAR News Of The Area, HOW good would it be to have an MP who listened to Coffs residents and properly represented them in the NSW Parliament? The planned development of the Coffs Jetty Foreshore precinct is a perfect example…
DEAR News Of The Area, AS much as I believe in freedom of speech I was really taken aback by the letter from a Mr K Higgs in Thursday’s 21 November issue of the News Of The Area. The gentleman’s…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN response to Gerry McGilvray “Show us the costings” (Coffs Coast NOTA 19 November 2024). All of a sudden the anti-development activists are concerned with pesky details like accurate costings. Where were these concerns when…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN reference to Lil Ganly’s letter in the Coffs and Nambucca NOTAs titled “The promise of the GKNP”, I’d suggest she looks back at the actual election commitment by NSW Labor. Their promise was “to…
DEAR News Of The Area, A recent Facebook post by a longtime friend about the price of airfares to and from Coffs Harbour elicited a large number of comments. The furious agreement of the responses was that the cost of…
DEAR News Of The Area, WELL done to the City of Coffs Harbour GM Natalia Cowley for her financial accountability. I would have thought it was her job to lead us through financial issues but if accolades are handed out…
DEAR News Of The Area, A recent Facebook post by a longtime friend about the price of airfares to and from Coffs Harbour elicited a large number of comments. The furious agreement of the responses was that the cost of…