THE Stringer Gallery’s Feature Artist for the months of May and June is Marlene Griffin, a long-standing member of the Nambucca Valley Arts Council. Marlene paints in a range of media including watercolours, acrylics and oils, and more recently has…
A NEW festival experience of music, art and story will take place in Coffs Harbour on 20 May 2023 at the Park Beach Reserve. Known as Storyland, this celebration of creativity will feature world class acts such as the double-Grammy…
STUDENTS studying at NV College got a fantastic opportunity to learn in a busy café environment, as part of their ‘Intro to Hospitality’ course last week. The students went to Café Zen, located at Fairway Gardens, Macksville, where they were…
NEXUS Gallery at The Old Butter Factory in Bellingen is getting back to earth with its two new exhibitions. The Main Gallery is showing the Coastal ClayMakers’ ceramics exhibition titled ‘20’ in celebration of their 20th birthday this year. Advertise…
COUNTRY music royalty pays a visit to the Macksville ex-Services Club on Friday 21 April with a performance of Travellin’ Still – the Songs of Slim Dusty. When Slim Dusty’s Travellin’ Country Band played their last full show with Slim…
MEMBER for Oxley Michael Kemp was last week notified of the NSW Electoral Commission’s distribution of preferences for the NSW State Election 2023. “The official distribution of preferences were called at 1pm in the NSWEC Oxley Electoral Office and I…
IAN Date, a master of the guitar, promises a “highly entertaining show” when he performs live and solo at Macksville Ex-Services Club on Sunday 30 April. “It’s a journey with the guitar,” Ian told News Of The Area. Advertise with…
RESIDENTS at Riverside Gardens Aged Care have been lucky enough to have some regular paw-some visitors. Choco, a Lab Kelpie and his lovely owner, Nicki Smith, who is a volunteer affiliated with Paws Pet Therapy, are visiting residents fortnightly. Advertise…
ON Monday 17 April visitors to the Stuarts Point Community Hall were confronted with a collection of wriggling kitchen scraps, though the free event was conducted for positive educational purposes, and there were no offensive sights or odours to endure.…
A TRIO of teens from the Nambucca Valley are making waves in the local music scene, cutting their first recordings at ValleySounds Studios in Nana Glen earlier this month. Ned Ambrose from Valla, Beau Hussell from Nambucca and Jesse Falzon…