NSW LABOR has announced a new Branch in Woolgoolga, with the first official meeting held at Woolgoolga Diggers on Thursday 22 February. President elect Stephen Ottaway said the Branch’s focus would be on “helping the community to resolve local issues”.…
DACIA Bradley celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday 24 February 2024 at home in Coffs Harbour. Joining her for the momentous occasion were a few old friends, her two sons Sean and Michael, her boyfriend Ian and all his family,…
THE famous Coffs Coast Pipe and Drums band is holding a monster garage sale on Sunday 3 March. Band members will set up the sale at the Band Hub at Coffs Harbour Showground, ready for business and banter from 9am…
DEAR News Of The Area, I’M 77 years of age and a fully paid up member of the “old farts” club. But I wonder, are there many younger people out there who are constantly frustrated by the deplorable service you…
DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIAN families are going into debt spending thousands of dollars on Taylor Swift concert tickets, merchandise, accommodation, interstate flights, etc, which is already causing a major impact on attendance, ticket sales and concert cancellations for…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN past times, Jetty High was known as ‘Jetty Jail’ – ugly buildings, concrete, no grass etc. Now, the State Government has taken a leaf out of the Department of Corrective Services’ prison farm manual…
DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE been following the news in NOTA regarding Coffs Council attempting to purchase land at the Jetty from the NSW Government and am disgusted to think that Council wishes to spend our ratepayers fund…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE author’s assertion of providing “a factual foundation” (‘What is sustainability in forestry?’, Nambucca Valley and Coffs Coast NOTA, 16/2/2024) ends after his reasonably good definition of sustainable, after which the usual ideological rhetoric takes…
DEAR News Of The Area, SINCE time immemorial, the Gumbaynggirr Nation has cared for country and we know that the Dunggirr is sacred to the First Nations peoples of Bellingen Shire. For over three decades, The Bellingen Environment Centre Inc.…
IN recent days, Australians have been asking questions about the effect of large retailers like Woolworths and Coles on regional communities. Last week, ABC’s Four Corners program aired an episode entitled ‘Super Power’ in which the tactics of these two…