JOEL and Jenny found an ideal block on which to build their family home. They sold their old home, to finance the build. Jenny was lucky enough to find a rental property close to the block, so they could send their children to their new school and watch over the

DEAR News Of The Area, WHAT else is new? Marlene Griffith’s letter 30/7/22 about Nambucca Shire councillors’ poor decision making about past developments is spot on. Try the Woolworths’ complex at Nambucca Heads – built on the best piece of prime real estate in Nambucca Heads. Opened some 18 years ago, with much

DEAR News of the Area, Regular visitors to the newly-emerging tidal sand flats at the Coffs Jetty boat ramp are a small group of Sooty Oystercatchers, considered a vulnerable species in NSW. The Sooty Oystercatchers are striking black shorebirds with a long red bill, red eye and pink legs. Human visitors to the

DEAR News of the Area, Former Labor politician and greenhouse gas enthusiast Joel Fitzgibbon has taken a job as lobbyist for the Forest Products Association. What possible use is an ex-parliamentarian with personal access to many "mates" within government? The question answers itself. History records Joel likes a good coal fire, it's

DEAR News of the Area, The statements by departing NSW Farmers’ president James Jackson are confusing and contradictory. On the one hand he calls for greater levels of government support for farmers, but also wants government to “get out of the way”. Is he asking for funding without transparency and accountability? He

DEAR News of the Area Good to see the Council fighting on our behalf to have the disputed land at the Jetty handed over to the Coffs community rather than sold to (or “partnered with”) a property developer. For all Gurmesh Singh’s prevarications about the legal complexities of the transfer, the