DEAR News Of The Area, I FEEL compelled to make a comment about Australia Day in light of our High Commissioner to the United Kingdom not celebrating Australia Day. As a migrant I was welcomed to this beautiful country. We had our cultural Issues but we overcame them with incredible understanding from the

DEAR News Of The Area, I REFER to last week’s letter from Zieta Hicks regarding the recently created bus zone in Marina Drive at the Jetty Foreshores. This new bus zone takes away five valuable parking spaces from general use. I, like many other locals, have been wondering about

DEAR News Of The Area, IN her letter "More fantasy than facts on forestry", (NOTA 10/1/25) Judith Kirkwood writes, "Storing carbon in forests is critical to slowing climate change. Science shows that larger, older trees store the most carbon, not regrowth after logging." This is a clear misrepresentation of the facts. While

DEAR News Of The Area, I DON’T know how many of you remember in 1987, when a bushfire burnt right to the edge of town. I was living in York Street then, and I remember the washing I had left on the line being full of little black holes where the