KAREN Thio has lived at Emerald Beach for more than 20 years and her art practice revolves around birds, birds and more birds. For the past eighteen months Karen has researched, drawn, etched and printed beautiful local Splendid Blue Fairy…
THE Community Use Permaculture Space (CUPS), a proposed urban garden for food growing, meeting and nature-themed activities in Brian Navin Park, is committed to its regular monthly meeting to build plans despite formal approval not being finalised for the site.…
AS the sun drops lower in the sky and the race is on to stack up the wood heap, The Art Space Urunga is busily preparing its bumper Members’ Winter Show. “This show is one of our big annual shows…
NOW is the time for private and business landowners to prepare for the bushfire season. Whether it’s a backyard blitz or private acreage burn off, the Rural Fire Service urges the community to be prepared and to make mitigation plans.…
MARK Hughes, the founder of the Mark Hughes Foundation (MHF), paid a recent visit to the North Coast Cancer Institute. Hughes, a former Newcastle Knights and NSW Origin rugby league player, visited the local Cancer Institute with Professor Mike Fay,…
LIPMAN, the NSW-based construction company with a long and proud history of working in the Mid North Coast, has won three awards at the 2023 Master Builders Association (MBA) Northern Region Building Awards. “We are thrilled to have been considered…
FUNDS raised at the LifeWalk 2023 sponsored walk on Saturday 3 June have put the SleepBus for Coffs Harbour project’s goal of raising $100,000 within sight. The SleepBus project was founded by advocate for the homeless Doris Rake (Cowan) and…
THE Legacy Centenary Torch Relay 2023, the flagship event for the organisation’s anniversary marking 100 years of service to those who have sacrificed, arrives in Coffs Harbour on Friday 30 June and Coffs Coast Legacy has been planning a suitably…
TWO Coffs Coast students received scholarships at the ‘2023 Proudly Public!’ Awards night at Sydney Town Hall on Monday, May 29. They were among over 700 public school students and educators from across Australia to receive scholarships administered by the…
LOGGING in native forest in Orara East State Forest was halted by protesters on Wednesday morning, June 6. A 55-year-old ‘forest defender’ suspended herself 30 metres high in a tree-sit from ropes strung across the only entrance to the forest,…