WHILE 2023 began with a focus on Coffs Harbour’s foreshore, climate, costs of living and increasing debate on the referendum in a year that sometimes felt as if it had more downs than ups, the ‘Times Gone By’ column stepped…
DEAR News Of The Area, My elderly neighbours, who delight in gardening and supplying others with excess fruit and veggies that they grow, had eighteen of their newly planted hedging plants stolen last week. They had worked so hard to…
DEAR News Of The Area, Warren Tindall cites headlines of the past 40 years as “proofs” of an all-encompassing climate change disaster (NOTA 29/12/23). Without further information I assume he is referring to reports of extreme weather events. If that…
DEAR News Of The Area, IT has been revealed in the media that the City of Coffs Harbour is one of 81 councils (four last year!) across NSW to refuse to conduct Australian citizenship ceremonies and certificates on Australia Day…
DEAR News Of The Area, THANK you Colin McEntyre for your tribute to Garry Nehl. There is insufficient room in this newspaper to list Garry’s achievements and parliamentary positions but as our local member back in the eighties and nineties…
IN response to the remarkably wide-ranging rural community I have been reporting on since I cautiously signed on to write for NOTA last year, I offer many thanks for your actual recognition that a free printed paper is still possible.…
DEAR News Of The Area, WELL the hottest global summer on record is hanging over us and COP28 participants have had their talk-fest in the UAE discussing what we are going to do to keep rising global temps within 1.5…
DEAR News Of The Area, It is good to see your article about the bollards in the 29/12/23 paper. I just like to add that we collected 120 signatures for the petition which asks for the removal of all bollards.…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN the midst of a rapidly evolving energy landscape, the Hunter Offshore Wind Proposal emerges as a beacon of opportunity, not just for sustainable energy generation but for the region’s economic vitality. As we stand…
DEAR News Of The Area, I MUST agree with your correspondent Julia Atkinson (NOTA 15 December 23) with Council’s poor record in the beautification of Coffs Harbour. To the roundabouts we can add the block retaining wall between Combine Street…