DEAR News Of The Area, A NEW report, Banking Climate Failure, by not-for-profit, Market Forces, reveals Australia’s big four banks have used smoke and mirrors to continue pouring billions of dollars into fossil fuel expansion. Despite claiming to support the…
DEAR News Of The Area, MY friend Helene lives in Vienna, Austria. Now that she is retired, she volunteers weekly at the Vienna Zoo. Her favorite enclosure is filled with Aussie animals – koalas and kangaroos. She has a brother…
AN evening of Tibetan and Indian music is coming to Bellingen Memorial Hall on Friday 16 June with performances by award winning Tibetan folk singer Tenzin Choegyal and world music group Tibet2Timbuk2. It’s been over a decade since these masterful…
TWO TAFE NSW graduates attending the Coffs Harbour campus have been recognised for their exceptional achievements at the TAFE NSW Excellence Awards for the North region last week. Bellingen student Elisabeth Cross took home TAFE Vocational Education and Training (TVET)…
“SUSTAINABILITY is now business as usual.” That was the message to attendees from Nicole McLennan, Section Leader, Economic Development and Tourism for the City of Coffs Harbour at a 6 Degrees seminar at the National Cartoon Gallery on June 1.…
LOCAL Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) radio personalities, Michael ‘Moffee’ Moffett from Triple M Coffs Coast 106.3 and Ben Stevenson from HIT 105.5 Coffs Coast, have teamed up with Coffs Harbour Chamber of Commerce to promote local businesses supporting the upcoming…
SAWTELL Art Group’s 35th Annual Exhibition committee is calling for entry forms to be submitted by Sunday 18 June with delivery of works to the gallery on Sunday 25 June between 10am and 3pm. The exhibition opens on Saturday 8…
AFTER three years of absence, two because of COVID restrictions and last year because of heavy rain, the Orara Valley Fair is back on Monday June 12 with an abundance of attractions including more than 56 food and market stalls,…
THE Happy Boxes Project in Toormina has been awarded a People of Post grant of $1,000 having been successfully nominated by Bonville Post Office in Australia Post’s annual grant program. “Being successful in the People of Post Grant will help…
DURING environmental surveys for the Coffs Harbour Highway Bypass, two previously unknown rainforest plant species were discovered, with their fate now in dispute. The Coffs Harbour Fontainea, with a world population of less than ten plants, is the rarest of…