THE 35th year of the Rotary Cartoon Awards were celebrated on Thursday 24 November at the National Cartoon Gallery, with cartoonist Peter Player taking out the Cartoon of the Year award from 201 entries. Mr Player’s winning entry, ‘Warm-Up’, features a streaker at a cricket match bending over touching his

THE Giving Tree is back at Big W Park Beach in the Plaza. From now until Christmas Eve, customers can place an unwrapped gift under the Giving Tree, each of which will go to families in the community who need it most. Big W has partnered with Good360 Australia to match

CUPS of tea and scones have done it again, with sales of food and beverage delights from Mary’s Tea House going straight towards buying medical equipment at Bellinger River Hospital. Just last week, the Bellingen Hospital Pink Auxiliary presented a $5,006 vital signs monitor to the Hospital with the latest funds

SERVICE NSW’s Aboriginal Artwork Initiative has launched at the Coffs Harbour branch, the fourth out of ten Service Centres to participate. Established following staff and customer feedback, the initiative aims to strengthen engagement with and acknowledgement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as well as make local service centres

COFFS COAST fishers rallied in response to a call from OzFish Unlimited to join in a clean-up around Boambee Creek on Saturday 18 November. OzFish Unlimited is a recreational fishing conservation charity, working through its Keep it Clean partnership with the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Fisheries to do the

THE 184th anniversary of her great great grandfather’s birth, on 19 October, had North Bank Road resident Jenni McLennan (nee Tyson) poring over her Tyson family history. “We have four generations of Tyson males, all born and still living in the valley. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it

THE newly upgraded Exhibition Hall at the Coffs Harbour showground, almost completed and due to officially open in February 2024, will provide a new home for the Made with Love Markets on Sunday 3 December. Deb Farquhar, Chairman of the Coffs Harbour Showground Crown Land Management Board, told News Of

ON Saturday January 27 2024 the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden will host an iconic event six months in the making. Local event promoters John Logan Entertainment (JLE) have managed to secure three Australian music icons - Glenn Shorrock, Russell Morris and Brian Cadd - for what is being dubbed

NINETY-NINE-year-old dance student Lorraine celebrated her birthday afternoon happily engaged in her favoured tap dance class at the Julie Ross Dance Studio (JRDS) in North Boambee Valley. “It was such a special day at the studio celebrating Lorraine's 99th birthday with her dance family at our ‘Newsies’ show rehearsal,” studio founder

NSW Home Support Services (HSS) are hosting a Christmas Lunch for the Coffs Harbour aged community on Wednesday 29 November, with local seniors invited to attend. “Bringing people together is such an important part of human life and we want to help the people of the Coffs community to feel