DEAR News Of The Area, WHO gave Ted O'Brien, Opposition energy spokesman, permission to select former coal power station sites as "strong contenders to locate new small modular reactors"? (Daily Telegraph, February 27 and 29.) Did he ask the residents of the Hunter Valley or Lake Macquarie whether they want dangerous nuclear

DEAR News Of The Area, ON 21 February, my elderly husband fell while using the escalator at Coffs Harbour Central. A number of total strangers were kind enough to come to help him. I would like to thank all those people for their kindness for helping a total stranger. In particular I

DEAR News Of The Area, THE Jetty Foreshore would hardly be suitable for affordable low cost or high rise housing. Once again when the public have been invited to comment on this proposal the City of Coffs HarbourCouncil choose not to consider the wishes of the ratepayers. This is not an area suited

DEAR News Of The Area, I OFTEN walk my dog around the Jetty and every now and then tourists have stopped me to inquire about the beautiful well designed building opposite the South Solitary Island Lighthouse Optic. Well what can I say except I know it's there, still an empty space,

DEAR News Of The Area, THERE appears to be no end to the manner in which the Department of Planning will gaslight this community in relation to their plans for the Jetty Foreshores. In Budget Estimates in State Parliament on 20/2/24, the most senior bureaucrat of the Department, Kiersten Fishburn, in explaining

DEAR News Of The Area, I’M 77 years of age and a fully paid up member of the "old farts" club. But I wonder, are there many younger people out there who are constantly frustrated by the deplorable service you get from many organisations when you are trying to conduct the

DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIAN families are going into debt spending thousands of dollars on Taylor Swift concert tickets, merchandise, accommodation, interstate flights, etc, which is already causing a major impact on attendance, ticket sales and concert cancellations for every other concert featuring local musicians! This will reverberate on

DEAR News Of The Area, IN past times, Jetty High was known as ‘Jetty Jail’ - ugly buildings, concrete, no grass etc. Now, the State Government has taken a leaf out of the Department of Corrective Services’ prison farm manual and constructed a totally inappropriate and oppressive fence seemingly designed to keep

DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE been following the news in NOTA regarding Coffs Council attempting to purchase land at the Jetty from the NSW Government and am disgusted to think that Council wishes to spend our ratepayers fund on a battle to do so, particularly when the NSW Government

DEAR News Of The Area, THE author’s assertion of providing “a factual foundation” (‘What is sustainability in forestry?’, Nambucca Valley and Coffs Coast NOTA, 16/2/2024) ends after his reasonably good definition of sustainable, after which the usual ideological rhetoric takes over. His claims that the sustainable removal of timber from just