LAST week the Nambucca Valley/Stuarts Point district was the venue for the Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) program, now in its 54th year. Hosted by the Nambucca Valley Rotary Club, the seven day program for this year was conducted at the Yarra Adventure Park at Stuarts Point and featured a dinner

NAMBUCCA Valley resident Calumn Hockey is a professional self-taught photographer and NOTA was lucky enough to catch up with him while he was between jobs at his parent’s farm in South Arm. In 2023, one of his photos was chosen as a finalist in the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the

LAST Saturday, 8 June, the Missabotti Hall held a Trash and Treasure event with stallholders and locals enjoying the fine winter weather to grab a bargain in the undercover patio section of the hall. The council-owned hall, like so many of the Nambucca Valley’s community spaces, has a long history of

UTUNGUN Hall has been awarded a Community Building Partnership grant of $7500 under the NSW government scheme. “We are a very active committee,” Gary Lee, Media Liaison Officer with the Utungun Community Centre’s committee told NOTA. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it for your business. Message us. Phone

STUARTS Point and District Garden Club members were busy on the morning of Wednesday 29 May preparing the local hall for around 85 guests from a range of local and regional garden clubs. “This day also signifies our one-year anniversary since formation as we take advice from ‘Garden Clubs of Australia’,

THE community is being invited to have its say on maintenance works for Macksville Bridge, with the Review of Environmental Factors now on display. Transport for NSW Regional Director North Anna Zycki said this work will help ensure the historic bridge remains an iconic landmark well into the future. Advertise with News

AN INDOOR sport suited to the cooler weather, the members of the Nambucca Heads Table Tennis Club are back in action as winter takes hold in the Nambucca Valley. Based out of the Headland Hall in Nambucca Heads, members believe their Thursday night club meet is an ideal place to

MEMBER for Oxley Michael Kemp and community member Rebecca Stanmore held a summit to address recent victims of crime in the community at Nambucca Heads RSL last Wednesday evening. The meeting was attended by Nambucca Deputy Mayor John Wilson, Police Chiefs Darren Jameson and Vince Nicholls from the Nambucca and Kempsey

THE Asyik Indonesian Arts Festival was very well attended at Scotts Head Public School on Saturday 25 May. The annual event celebrates the diversity of Indonesian arts, cuisine and people. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us - (02) 4981 8882.

SINCE 2020 and Covid-19, the demographics of rural Australia appear to have changed a little, but in general, the Nambucca Valley remains a low socioeconomic region and the biggest concern for many residents is cost-of-living. “(Due to COVID) there was an influx of city-based buyers moving to regional areas including the