DEAR News Of The Area, I WENT to a fantastic concert on Friday night given by Lior and the Tinalley Quartet with 200 people in the audience. The concert was arranged by Coffs Harbour Music Society in association with Musica Viva and Coffs Harbour City Council. For people interested in live

DEAR News Of The Area, GURMESH Singh, you are wrong about the feasibility of constructing obscenely high rise apartments at the Jetty, which is supposed to have free open spaces, as agreed by the majority of Coffs Harbour residents. One has to wonder why you feel it necessary to

Our local Community Resilience Network membership The Australian Red Cross – Nambucca Valley Emergency Services Team is a member of the Nambucca Valley Community Resilience Network (CRN). The CRN grew out of the ‘Get Ready Nambucca’ Community consultation meetings held throughout the Valley in 2021. The CRN is a local

DEAR News Of The Area, THE fastest way to acquire nuclear subs will be to wet lease them from the US. The sooner we build nuclear power stations and/or efficient coal powered power stations, the better. Renewables wont hack the mission. We can't stop mining coal because we need it to make steel,

DEAR News Of The Area, AS an infrequent driver along Bucca Rd, north of Coffs Harbour, I am dismayed for, and sympathetic to, the regular commuters and residents who negotiate the bumps and potholes along this road on a daily basis. Whilst I appreciate the immense task of filling the potholes in

DEAR News Of The Area, I SPEND a lot of my time in, on and around the lower Myall River so I have been interested to read the recent speculation in the News Of The Area about dredging in the eastern ‘shortcut’ entrance to the river. If we are to persist with

DEAR News Of The Area, ON 19 July 1995 the local Advocate paper gave front page coverage to the 1200 concerned residents of Coffs Harbour who packed into the Jetty Village (then known as Treasure Island) to object to the development of residential buildings on the eastern side of the railway

DEAR News Of The Area, THIS year, Coffs Harbour received ‘Eco-destination’ certification. It’s one of two destinations in Australia (the other being Port Douglas) to be given the certification. It recognises both the community engagement with the environment including traditional cultural connections as well as the physical natural beauty and its

DEAR News Of The Area, IT has been a month now since the Sydney press exposed a secret plan on the part of the State Rail Corporation to “engage and partner with developers” to produce billions of dollars in windfall profits for the Government through capitalising to the maximum their property

DEAR News Of The Area, THE senior residents of Coffs Harbour and surrounding districts are asking why the heated pool situated at the Coffs Base Hospital has been closed since before Covid and still hasn't reopened yet. Is it because it's used as storage space and nobody has the initiative to clean