DEAR News Of The Area, TO the Boambee senior citizen who tripped on the footpath (NOTA January 26). Dear Margaret, I hope you have patience. determination and dogmatic hats to put on in order to have your trip hazard fixed by City of Coffs Harbour. I know a 65 year old woman

DEAR News Of The Area, The letter on 25 January 2024, ‘Discussion getting lost on power generation’, could equally be headed ‘Never miss an opportunity to plug the totally unjustifiable and uneconomic nuclear’. Two details that upset the letter’s argument: Liddell's closure is a loss of an unreliable 800 to 1.25 GW, not

DEAR News Of The Area, IN reference to Ziggy Koenigseder’s emotive letter in both the Coffs Coast and Nambucca NOTA (19/1/24) titled 'An unbelievable decision on native forests', I’d like to correct several errors of fact. There is no “clear felling of our old growth native forests” in NSW. There have been no

DEAR News Of The Area, I PAUSED briefly before crossing the busy road - very well aware of both my pending surgery, and the unwise volume I had purchased! Suddenly a dear lady of 'small stature' stood beside me conveying her thoughtfulness, in these words: "Let me carry your load for you!"

DEAR News Of The Area, TWO letters in NOTA on January 26 claimed the timber industry was sustainable. Clearly they don't have an understanding of post-war logging history and the current resource's maths. At the end of the 60s log diameters began to shrink, it was clear that logs suitable for large

DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in agreement with the article in last week's paper concerning Margaret Bridgman. The state of the footpaths in the Sawtell area are a complete disgrace. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us - (02)

DEAR News Of The Area, A VERY successful business in Macksville, NSW (Express Coach Builders) is struggling to keep operating, although it has a very loyal, dedicated workforce and manufactures top quality coaches for the Australian Defence Force as well as buses for schools and the public transport and tourism sector!

DEAR News Of The Area, THERE seems to be a huge groundswell of citizens who are appalled about all things Australian. They seem to be able to conjure up outrage on virtually any subject and will take to the streets to demand change to most things that seem to

DEAR News Of The Area, WHILST letters to the paper are occasionally constructive, dealing in facts, one can be forgiven for thinking in the main they are from the bleeding hearts and tree huggers, the virtue signalers and climate warriors, the hand wringers and modern doomsday merchants. In essence, those that continually

DEAR News Of The Area, THIS is a letter of thanks to the team at Coffs Coast News Of The Area. Sometimes we take it for granted that we have a weekly local newspaper, but with local papers going out of business all over Australia we need to take the time