DIVERSITY reigns at May’s Artists in the Garden (AITG) event, with a program covering music, spoken word and visual arts offered on Sunday 7 May at Coffs’ North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens. The Sawtell Ukulele Group will open the music…
LEARNING about Indigenous ways of life through lived experience, Class 10 students at Chrysalis Steiner School, Thora are taking a trip to Arnhem Land in the far north Northern Territory. The students will be guided by their teacher, Zac Panarettos,…
THE Coffs Coast’s Screenwave International Film Festival has set a new all-time ticket sales record, meaning that by the end of SWIFF’23 tonight, the festival will also break the overall attendance record. Festival organisers attribute a voracious audience appetite for…
COFFS Harbour’s Dr Liz May has been honoured as one of 24 recipients of the 2023 NSW Rural Scholarship Program. Dr May works at Coffs Harbour Health Campus where she is training to become a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology.…
THE front page story in last week’s Coffs Coast News Of The Area (NOTA), Friday 28 April, featured a photo of Allan Crouch, a 2023 ANZAC of the Year recipient, celebrating with Bob Breen OAM, President, Woolgoolga RSL sub-Branch, and…
TWO years up-and-running, the Ulong Health Hub is now on the brink of another major milestone, to build a second consultation room. The driving force behind this next momentous step, the proprietor of Ulong General Store and Café in the…
THEODORUS de Groot celebrated his landmark 100th birthday this week, in the process becoming one of the first to get a letter of congratulations from the new King. Theo was born in the Netherlands on April 26, 1923, where he…
CHRYSALIS Steiner School Class 10 students Abbi and Lara, ably supported by Lara’s mother Andi, hosted a successful fundraiser with a market stall at the monthly Bellingen Markets on Saturday 15 April. Class 10 students from Thora Valley’s Chrysalis Steiner…
THE combined Rotary Clubs of Coffs City and Daybreak have run their annual Charity Golf Day at the Coffs Harbour Golf Club. “The well supported afternoon was a huge success for both clubs with Mike Blewitt Ford as naming right…
HAVING escaped war-torn Iraq, Mando Ido has credited TAFE NSW for helping him find a new life in Coffs Harbour and be accepted into university. In 2014, Mando and his family fled Iraq and took refuge in Turkey. Advertise with…