DEAR News Of The Area, MY suggestion for attending to this housing 'crisis' is for the government - all 'levels' - to purchase all available houses and units (there are over 1000 at present in Cowper) and make them available for rent to their employees - teachers, medicos, police - at

DEAR News Of The Area, I ATTENDED the 40th birthday celebration for Jetty Dunecare on Saturday. I missed my opportunity to express my gratitude at the event so express it here. Coffs Harbour is so fortunate for all the work Jetty Dunecare has done over the last 40 years to regenerate

DEAR News Of The Area, CRITICISM of the recent Federal Budget by NSW Treasurer Matt Kean and local MPs Kevin Hogan and Pat Conaghan should not go uncontested. As noted by Business NSW the Budget was “reasonable and proportionate”. Treasurer Jim Chalmers produced a responsible Budget that will start the long

DEAR News Of The Area, WHY do we allow politicians, many of whom have never set foot on a ‘real’ farm, come up with this ridiculous impost on our long suffering Aussie farmers, without a thread of evidence to the real facts! Cattle and sheep who live their lives outdoors and

DEAR News Of The Area, I AM writing to add my voice to the many people in our community who are concerned about the potential loss of the community space previously provided by the courtyard adjoining the Nambucca Heads Library. I understand the Library extension plan includes the courtyard being fenced off behind

DEAR News Of The Area, CONGRATULATIONS to Beverly Gibbs from ‘Save the Nambucca River’ for her letter in NOTA on 28 October 2022. As a child, during school holidays we would visit our relatives’ farm. I remember going down to the Taylors Arm River to swim in the beautiful swimming hole cleaned

DEAR News Of The Area, REMEMBER when the LNP politicians lined up to bask in the spending of $15 million dollars to restore and improve the Coffs Harbour boat launching precinct? Now that it's finished and the problems have been exacerbated instead of being reduced, those same politicians have gone silent.

DEAR News Of The Area, WE had a guest speaker last week from the Coffs Neighbourhood Centre speaking on the homeless people they have there. They feed them, do their laundry and find them clothing and bedding so they can hopefully sleep safe in the adjoining bush land. When we go to

DEAR News Of The Area, AT a time when we are already aware of the varied and all too constant avoidable threat to the health of our environment, and the extinction of our already threatened species, why do we still tolerate our government departments wasting our taxes on ill conceived and

DEAR News Of The Area, I SEE in the edition of Friday October 28, another indication that people think they can do a better job of controlling all the land, rivers, creeks, and creatures of nature than Mother Nature herself. I've been in the Nambucca Valley for over 74 years, and