A BIG, bright, playful artwork by local artist Joe Neathway Brown has been donated by the Coffs Harbour Pink Ladies to Coffs Harbour Health Campus – a donation that will entertain youngsters attending the Emergency Department. Joe has created several murals for the department’s four paediatric bays and procedure room; transforming

  THE Return and Earn recycling scheme has marked its 4th birthday, with the Coffs Harbour region recycling more than 98 million items over this time, equating to over 8,000 tonnes of rubbish which has escaped a future as landfill. In the Bellingen Shire, more than 6.7 million items have been recycled

  LOCAL Landcare held its Annual Awards and Volunteer Appreciation presentations at its Coffs Harbour Regional Landcare (CHRL) Nursery in Woolgoolga. Officiated by Barry Powells, President CHRL and Mel Craig, Landcare coordinator, fifty-plus members from all over the region cheered the popular recipients of each award. Advertise with News of The Area today.

  ALMOST fifty Bellingen locals gathered at Maam Gaduying Meeting Place Park in Bellingen last week to protest the jailing of a protester in Newcastle. On Tuesday 23 November 2021, 22-year-old climate activist Eric Serge Herbert (Sergio) was sentenced to twelve month’s imprisonment, six months no parole, for disrupting coal trains entering

  A $10,000 donation has been made to NSW SES Coffs Harbour City Unit by Handybin Waste Services and Biomass Solutions, as a thank you for their supportive additional work after October’s devastating hailstorm. The businesses joined forces to donate $10,000 to say thank you and to acknowledge the SES for their

  INCLUSION and access are par for the course as Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery showcases their White Bluff Project exhibition in a variety of ways so audiences don’t miss out. From paintings and ceramics, to poetry and film, the exhibition showcases fifteen local artists. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth

  LOCAL surfers joined in the ‘Our Islands Our Home’ climate crisis campaign, in a Paddle Out on Sunday, 7 November. Their action showed support for Torres Strait Islanders and their home which campaigners say is amongst the most vulnerable to climate change. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it

  A MAJOR step in a visionary community project was taken at Glenreagh on Saturday, 30 October. As previously reported in News Of The Area, the Glenreagh Men’s Shed opened in September, and Saturday saw the official handing over of the keys by Stewart Mackie, the President of Glenreagh Mountain Railway Incorporated. Advertise

  A BUDGET blowout at the Coffs Harbour Airport Enterprise Park project has angered local councillors who say they were not kept informed about the project’s rising costs. A Council report stated that a number of issues had arisen and been managed by the Airport Enterprise Park (AEP) project team to progress