Emergency Ready Week On 27 September the Nambucca Valley Australian Red Cross Emergency Services team hosted a free, drop-in emergency preparedness information event for our Get Ready Week at the Red Cross Teahouse in Bowra Street. The team displayed a sample emergency kit to show people what they could pack, gave out

DEAR News Of The Area, WHILST the most pressing need in Coffs Harbour was for an Entertainment Centre the ratepayers have been saddled with a huge debt for many years to come paying for a Civic Centre which should have been well down on the list of priorities. The current Council Chambers

DEAR News Of The Area, WE would like Council to act on the increasing issue of trolleys left abandoned in the Park Beach Plaza precinct. We counted over 40 trolleys today in nearby streets (Condon, Prince, Boultwood, Park Beach Rd etc.) It is an eyesore and bad for Coffs Harbour

DEAR News Of The Area, What is the matter with Port Stephens Council? Do they not know that their job descriptions are to be found in the Local Government Act? After its lack of success with SRV Mark I following the exposure of various misrepresentations to the media and public,

DEAR News Of The Area, AS a twenty three year resident of Swan Bay, a regular river kayak paddler and a daily walker to the river mouth, I was interested to read Gordon Grainger’s thoughts in last week's edition about salinity, sand movement and dredging of the eastern (short cut) river

HELLO, the last couple of months have been busy for the Progress Association with the delayed opening of our pool due to the $700k upgrade causing much angst in our community. I have again escalated these concerns to the MidCoast Council (MCC), in particular to the Liveable Communities Review of MCC

DEAR News Of The Area, CONCERN about a potential truck depot being constructed in Hamilton Drive, Boambee East and adjacent to Boambee Creek has raised eyebrows amongst the residents who live there. It is proposed that the site will operate 24/7 and will house and service many dozens of earthmoving machines and

DEAR News of The Area, IN an article in this newspaper three weeks ago, I questioned the validity of both the 2018 GHD survey and the 2021 Ethos Urban survey with regards to the Jetty Foreshores Revitalisation, given an analysis I had sent to the Minister for Planning, Anthony Roberts and

DEAR News Of The Area, IN response to the many NOTA correspondents who cannot fathom why Coffs Harbour City Council has hastily pushed through the recent name change to City of Coffs Harbour - you don't have to be Hercule Poirot to work it out. Owing to disastrous decision-making of

DEAR News Of The Area, RHONDA Davies in the NOTA on 7 October points out that a significant sum of public funding will have been spent on the Library Extension Project. The latest estimated figure is $5 million. News is that the project will be delivering an exciting new