DEAR News Of The Area, REMEMBER as a child, making a list of presents you wanted for Christmas? Or maybe your children or grandchildren are in the process of making such a list now. As adults, we could make a Christmas wish list too – naming ways to make our society

IN 2014 the NSW Government announced plans to purchase new carriages to replace ageing intercity and regional trains. This new class of train was given the name of Mariyung and was slated to take over from what we knew as XPTs and Explorers. In the meanwhile, the short distance T

DEAR News Of The Area, IN response to your article on the cost of the Great Koala National Park. I would like to remind you that in February 2022 the Federal Government declared the koala an "endangered species" in NSW, QLD and the ACT. The Australian Koala Foundation shows that our region of

DEAR News Of The Area, IN the early hours of 7 November my wife had to call an ambulance for me as I was unconscious and she could not revive me. Three ambulances arrived shortly. In the meantime the operator was calmly telling my wife what to do. As I was being

DEAR News Of The Area, CAN we have a conversation about a disturbing subject? Can we talk about the naming of the Boolumbahtee river? Many people know it as the Manning River. When Robert Dawson named the river after William Manning he was one of the main backers of the Australian Agricultural

I WOULD like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. As we approach the end of the year and families head off on holidays, I would just like to remind everyone to be safe, make sure you stop, revive, survive if you are taking on long trips. To

DEAR News Of The Area, HOW good would it be to have an MP who listened to Coffs residents and properly represented them in the NSW Parliament? The planned development of the Coffs Jetty Foreshore precinct is a perfect example of our local MP seemingly deaf to the majority of local

DEAR News Of The Area, AS much as I believe in freedom of speech I was really taken aback by the letter from a Mr K Higgs in Thursday’s 21 November issue of the News Of The Area. The gentleman's letter was full of falsehoods and showed his total lack of knowledge

DEAR News Of The Area, IN response to Gerry McGilvray “Show us the costings” (Coffs Coast NOTA 19 November 2024). All of a sudden the anti-development activists are concerned with pesky details like accurate costings. Where were these concerns when the former council majority hastily created their own uncosted and laughably amateurish