DEAR News Of The Area, OVER the last months I have walked, cycled and driven around the visual and physical obstacle course created on Beach St. No matter from what approach I find this shamble of bollards and vertical humps a constant irritating mental distraction. It is ugly In the extreme and

DEAR News Of The Area, LAST Thursday 1 December, I was walking across the wet pedestrian crossing at the Woolworth’s entrance to the Park Beach Plaza when I slipped and fell. I hurt my knee and back and to my surprise two lovely complete strangers got me to my feet and helped

DEAR News Of The Area, I PUT my red bin out this morning. It has never been so full since we stopped recycling our soft plastics. We have the worm food tub, the green waste tub, the recycle tub and the rubbish tub. Once we had a plastics tub, which we

DEAR News Of The Area, WHEN my late dad was born in 1927, the global population had reached a staggering two billion. It had taken all of human history up until 1800 to reach one billion, and then only another 127 years to pile on another billion. The strains were

DEAR News Of The Area, I wish to congratulate last issue contributors. I agree with R Tindale that the Council’s “plan is truly visionary - what Coffs residents want at the Jetty foreshore.” Perhaps we need a State Member more sympathetic to the recreational needs of residents and visitors rather than developers

DEAR News Of The Area, IT seems like all out bloody war has broken out with the National party executive announcing their opposition to 'the Voice to Parliament'. Divisions are occurring within the National party on a personal and State based level with WA being opposed to the premature opposition to

DEAR News Of The Area, A regular visitor to Myall Street, Tea Gardens, is an unmarked white sedan with a ‘Radar Speed Check’ placard on the roof. One day there was one on each side of the road. The hours they spend here seem disproportionate to the area’s population and the

DEAR News Of The Area, ASHLEY Love and Charlie England’s letters in NOTA 25/11/11 regarding the pending destruction of Grandpa’s Scrub, a 0.5ha remnant of unique Lowland Rainforest on the edge of the Bypass alignment reveals the irony and double standards behind our current Critical and Significant Infrastructure laws, which enable

DEAR News Of The Area, Here is my open letter to Gurmesh Singh MP. Dear Mr Singh, I fully support the vision plan for the jetty foreshores as proposed by the City Of Coffs Harbour Council and recently published in the local newspaper. The Council's plan is truly visionary and fully reflects what

DEAR News Of The Area, AT the last Council election, none of the candidates now sitting in Council Chambers gave any indication that they opposed the harbour foreshores development. Now we have the majority of Councillors not only opposing it, but voting to use $20,000 of ratepayers funds to support their