NEWCASTLE Permanent, the Hunter-based financial institution, has been named the best bank in Australia, placed first in Forbes’ World’s Best Banks, an annual list created based on a survey of 48,000 banking customers across 32 countries. The survey asks participants…
THE second Coffs Coast Festival of Motor Sport has been confirmed for 2023. The month-long motor sports event held across the Coffs Coast will start on Saturday 4 November and go through until the weekend finale on 26 and 27…
LIKE most Council areas in Australia, City of Coffs Harbour has strong policies and planning guidelines for commemorative and memorial plaques on public land. Public open space areas are an important community resource, so memorials, monuments and plaques need to…
BOAMBEE East Community Centre (BECC) Chin Waggers gathered a group of 25 members to pay a visit to Coffs Community Radio station 2AIR FM’s Glenreagh Street studio to celebrate World Amateur Radio Day 2023 on Tuesday 18 April. 2AIR FM…
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…