DEAR News Of The Area, IS it any wonder voters are turning increasingly towards Independent candidates? The pathetic, desperate bribes being offered last week by both sides of government presented an embarrassing spectacle. I fail to understand why taxation is…
DEAR News Of The Area, ONLY a few weeks to go readers, and we’ll be back to the evening news being dominated by crime and car accidents in the suburbs, rather than politicians in fluoro vests kissing babies. The other…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN the upcoming election, anyone who is not a billionaire, which is most of us, should bear in mind a few facts. According to the ABS, Australia’s GDP growth since 2020 was 9.3 percent. Meanwhile,…
WITH the NRL season having kicked off last month, Coffs Coast players get their own chance to take to the field again when the latest Group 2 Rugby League season kicks off this weekend. Sawtell Panthers and the Grafton Ghosts…
THE SECOND Coffs Backyard Ultra, scheduled for Saturday 7 June 2025, is expected to be the biggest event ever of its kind. A Backyard Ultra is a unique running event where participants run or walk 6.7 kilometres (one ‘lap’) within…
COFFS Showground became a mecca for motors when the Bridgestone B Select Coffs Coast Sport and Leisure Motor Festival was held on Sunday, 13 April. The event was hosted by Coffs Harbour and District Sporting Car Club. A club spokesperson…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE coming Federal election has little to do directly with the State government’s decision to sell the Coffs foreshore to a property developer, but the 33,000 residents who voted against this sell off might well…
THE surprise sequel The Accountant 2 is being released this week, nine years after the first entry and reuniting director Gavin O’Conner with writer Bill Dubuque along with stars Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson and J.K. Simmons. Affleck is…
PENNY is talking to her neighbour, Wendy on the nature strip in front of their properties. A dispute arises between them when Wendy claims that the nature strip is her property and Penny is not allowed to do any gardening…
DEAR Jasminda, Every time I catch up with my friends the conversation always ends up leading to our despair over American politics. I catch up with them to escape negative things and sometimes I now leave feeling worse than when…