DEAR News Of The Area, In response to Bruce Weirs letter (‘Abject Betrayal of the Coffs Harbour Community’, p24, Coffs Coast News of The Area, 18 February 2022), as a member of the Project Steering Advisory Committee I can affirm the proposal for construction of 240 residential units and 60 tourist

  DEAR News Of The Area, LEARNT a lesson from last election, one that’s gunna last, This poor country of ours is rooted in the past. We had a chance to take a plan and move right on ahead, But again the voters chose to go nowhere fast instead. No matter how our country grows the

  DEAR News Of The Area, THE lack of a footpath on Tomaree Road (‘Lack of footpath on Tomaree Road’, p4, Port Stephens NOTA, 24 February Edition) is never more challenging than when getting off the bus at the first stop on Tomaree Road - in the dark with a suitcase. I get

  PORT Stephens Council upgraded William St, Raymond Terrace some five months ago. The Federal Government gave country councils $1 million to upgrade the main streets in their shires. Port Stephens council only did half the job, by only top dressing half of William St Raymond Terrace and leaving the road in front

  DEAR News Of The Area, THE sea wall supposedly designed to improve and make our harbour boat ramp better and safer has created a real problem with sand build up already making boat access impossible at low tide. The wall design and the modelling undertaken by the Manly Hydraulics Laboratory seems to

  ON the theme of food resilience for our area, for many regions they would simply have to give up their caffeinated habits once supplies were gone, but we would not. Tea, coffee, sugarcane and other sweeteners all grow very well here. And we have cows and goats for milk, and macadamias for

  CUCUMBERS are super easy to grow here and kindly prolific with fruit. The Coffs Harbour area is a commercial growing hub for cucumbers, though usually in greenhouses to meet the perfectionist requirements of supermarkets year round. For backyard gardeners, cucumbers are grown ‘in the field’ and do very well at providing more

  DEAR News Of The Area, CONGRATULATIONS to Bruce Weir (‘Abject Betrayal of the Coffs Harbour Community, p24, Coffs Coast News of The Area, 18 February 2022) for bringing to our attention the online December minutes of the Jetty Foreshores Planning Advisory Committee proposing a massive residential redevelopment of the Jetty Foreshores. Apparently

  DEAR News Of The Area, COFFS Harbour Greens attended the Nurses and Midwives rally in Coffs Harbour last week to support our frontline healthcare workers. We joined the strike action because we’re concerned that the NSW government is failing to keep our community safe by ignoring Nurses and Midwives requests for safe

  DEAR News Of The Area, I RECEIVED in my letterbox a brochure (otherwise known as junk mail) from Kate Washington MP, but in this junk mail is an article about the new upgrade of Port Stephens Road from Cabbage Tree Road to Bobs Farm. This would be one of the worst road