DEAR News Of The Area, The Harbour Planning Process should involve key steps, and the community should be part of each step. I suggest for consideration, the key steps to be: 1. Deal with necessary Infrastructure needs: – The sand…
BURNT out and traumatised by corporate bullying, Helen Lambert met the news that she’d been made redundant with an open mind. Living in Balmain in Sydney’s Inner West, the onset of pandemic lockdowns in 2020 saw her role in employee…
EXPECTATIONS for the new butter factory were high, especially when a good quality water source was found on-site in early June 1909. A well and other land improvements were estimated to cost £415 and building construction would be around £700,…
CITY of Coffs Harbour will formally call on the NSW Government to replace the State-owned footbridge at Moonee Beach. The timer bridge was closed to the public in November 2022 after it was found to be unstable and a public…
KINGSTON Dylan from Woolgoolga Public School was one of three North Coast students who received scholarships at the 2024 ‘Proudly Public!’ awards night recently held at Sydney Town Hall. Kingston was awarded the Waratah Education Foundation Primary Scholarship and was…
CITY of Coffs Harbour will seek to run a poll to determine the community’s feelings on the potential redevelopment of the Jetty Foreshores precinct. It was resolved at the 9 May meeting that Council apply to the Electoral Commission of…
‘RAIN supreme’ was the witty motto quipped and adopted by the Mid North Coast Hot Rod Club (MNCHR) during the club’s 23rd annual ‘Lazy Winter Run’ in Woolgoolga last weekend. It was a solidly wet weekend for the club’s major…
THE Community Union Defense League (CUDL) and the Australian Communist Party will collaborate for a rally on May 19 at Coffs Central Square to call for action on the ongoing housing crisis in the region. The rally, being held in…
LOCAL conservationists are dismayed by the clearing of what they say was a vital koala corridor in the development of the Coffs Harbour Bypass. A local resident provided News Of The Area with photos taken of bypass tree cleaning on…
LAST Sunday, 12 May, in gloriously refreshing sunshine, the Yarrahapinni Walkers celebrated their 27th year of rambling with a walk along Grassy Head Beach and morning tea at the reserve. The group was instigated in May 1997 at Grassy Head…