DEAR Jasminda, Our elderly mother spends her days watching Sky News, interspersed with Youtube clips from far right US Conspiracy groups. She is aggressive and argumentative continually wanting to talk about the sea level, quoting someone called Alan or Pauline, and blaming Covid outbreaks on minority racial groups. Speaking of Covid; she bounces

  DEAR News Of The Area, Whether you see them or not, they are there. As we enter Homelessness Week (1-7 August), every night there are more than 116,000 people who are homeless and don’t have somewhere safe or secure to sleep – including 37,715 in NSW. There are many reasons why people face

  DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE been following the issue of the enlargement of the Nambucca Library and along with others have voiced my concerns about this development. It is not because I do not value the library, far from it. However I value the communities right to the large space in

  DEAR Jasminda, I am so sick of hearing about Coronavirus every day. It is like a never-ending disaster movie. How do we cope? Mrs Helen P Dear Helen, It is overwhelming, isn't it. Day in, day out. Waiting for 11am, which used to be reserved for morning tea and perhaps a piece of cake but is now the

  AGAIN, we have been unable to have meetings of the Hawks Nest Tea Gardens Progress Association (PA) and the Southern Area Reference Group due to Covid restrictions and suffice to say, we have little to report in the way of new developments. The PA Subcommittee dealing with the public pool has

  Tea Gardens Visitor Centre IN my last column I may have inadvertently given the impression that the CTC was receiving $10,000 PA from Council. That is not the case and I apologise to the wonderful CTC management team if it caused any angst. The council figure was the amount the Council spent in

  DEAR News Of The Area, WITH the sale of the Macksville Hospital by the State Government for $1.65 million it would be hoped that this money will benefit the area by being channeled into the much needed purchasing of essential medical equipment for the hospital. I strongly urge that our local State

  DEAR News of the Area, WITH the up and coming Council elections it will be interesting to see which candidates for Council will have the courage to change the direction of the Cultural Centre and apply for "Change of Useage" altering the design to incorporate a Performing Arts Centre of Excellence

  DEAR News Of The Area, FOLLOWING the near hysterical outcome of the alleged breach of quarantine restrictions by a construction worker who is said to have attended a local hotel in Coffs Harbour last week, the question to be asked is how such an event could even occur when such draconian

  WHAT a slap in the face for the State Government to postpone our elections to December when they are well aware of how the majority of the people of Coffs Harbour feel about the council. All the letters and signed petitions have been to no avail. Is there another agenda here? Bring