DEAR News Of The Area, I AM amazed at the lack of consultation of the Council, particularly the department's planners with the community of Woolgoolga. As you are aware we had a very strategically placed old Surf Club which was very important for the Woopi Wavers swimming group. This has been removed and

  DEAR News Of The Area, TO add to Jeff Clancy's list of the shortcomings of our recent Council (‘A Term In Review’, p26, Coffs Coast News Of The Area, December 3 Edition). 1. Removing most of the bench seating near St George Bank and all the way along the street, plus some

  DEAR News Of The Area, A MESSAGE to the major players in second hand clothing shops locally. I have shopped there for 40 years. On Tuesday I went on a crawl, as we avid shoppers do, but was stunned at the new prices two of the major players are now charging! No longer $4

  THURSDAY 9 December saw a capacity house at the Dark Arts Café and Bar for Kelly Mac’s maiden run of her new show ‘Wrong Side of 50’. After a great warm up set from local radio identity and award-winning comedian Ben Stevenson, Kelly hit the stage with her trademark enthusiasm. Apologising in

  THANK you good people of Macksville for supporting the CWA Street Stall on Thursday 18 November. Tables laden with home made jams, pickles, cakes and slices raised $910, the Raffle raised $197, and the trading table with plants, jewellery, homemade pieces, pet rocks, cook books and tea towels and odds and

  DEAR News Of The Area and community, THIS is my first letter as the new President of the HNTG Progress Association. Our Annual General Meeting was conducted 6 December 2021 and was well attended with elections conducted for the 2022 committee. I would like to thank the outgoing committee and welcome our new

  THE year 2021 could easily qualify for Queen Elizabeth’s description as ‘Annus Horribilis’. We were unable to hold regular meetings with the Progress Association, the Southern Area Reference Group and the Myall River Action Group. We would guess many other groups within our community experienced similar difficulties. However, there was a lot of

  DEAR News Of The Area, THE NSW Government initiative seeking hosts for electric vehicle (EV) chargers in regional areas may help local businesses get more customers in the door. The NSW Government is offering to install a Fully Funded EV Charger to local businesses to help pull in more business. As a local

  DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE been pondering over the news that we are getting, that all types of businesses (for example restaurants, shops, fruit pickers) cannot find enough staff to do full time or even part time work and we have to rely on overseas folk to do this. I

  DEAR News Of The Area, THANK goodness that Council election is over. For two years at least, Andrew Fraser has been the attack dog of the Coffs Council. Calling for its dismissal, screaming all the way until election day and backing retired property developer Rodger Pryce as ‘Mr Fix It’. But the voters didn’t