DEAR News Of The Area, LIZ Philpott’s letter (NOTA 31/1/24) about the cost of op shop goods made interesting reading. I work in a local op shop where all the wonderful staff, including our beautiful managers, are voluntary. Most other…
DEAR News Of The Area, I AM writing in response to the letter of opinion from Liz Philpott (31 January 2025) headed ‘What went wrong with op-shops?’. It is not my intention to speak on behalf of the multitude of…
DEAR News Of The Area, REGARDING the demise of NSW Labor politician and Minister for Transport Jo Haylen. Jo Haylen is a very capable politician. Her loss of ministerial responsibility is a loss for all people in NSW. Our democracy…
THE Pink Silks Trust (PST) capped off 2024 having raised $150k for Coffs Coast women’s organisations and hospitals, while reaching a milestone $1.5m since its foundation eighteen years ago. PST holds three annual events, which are always well-supported and combine…
HAVING lain deep in the vaults of the National Herbarium of NSW unidentified for more than 40 years, an aged specimen found in Coffs Harbour in the early 1970s has finally been described and catalogued as a new species of…
THE Coffs Harbour Bluewater Freedivers is one of seven local sports clubs receiving funds to buy an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) through the NSW Government’s Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program. Aimed at providing AEDs and associated equipment to NSW sport…
CITY of Coffs Harbour Mayor Nikki Williams has shared what her first 100 days in the role have looked like and outlined her priorities for the years ahead. “Every day I want to work to make you proud of me,”…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Port Macquarie byelection has echoes of the southern NSW federal seat of Farrer, previously held by Nationals’ deputy prime minister Tim Fischer. Sussan Ley, now deputy Liberal leader, won it in 2001 from the…
DEAR News Of The Area, ALISON Penfold, National Party candidate for Lyne electorate, states the party will ‘ensure we get our Australia back on track’. Is she aware that under the Labor Albanese government one million jobs, an historic high,…
DEAR News Of The Area, ALISON Penfold, National Party candidate for Lyne, claims ‘my plan is to fight to restore our standard of living’. I find this unbelievable given that the Liberal and National parties have voted against most of…