AS a recent addition to the News Of The Area team, I must say that my short time with the organisation has been a great experience for me. Having the opportunity to write my fishing articles with freedom to express my environmental and sustainability concerns has been a pleasure. The feedback

DEAR News Of The Area, WITH regard to the recent discussion regarding the native hardwood timber industry, can I suggest that every living organism on the planet has ‘skin in the game’ when it comes to our native forests. In an ideal world we would all be able to afford native

DEAR News Of The Area, CAN someone please take responsibility ASAP for the lack of vision on the enormous roundabout which feeds traffic in all directions, just south of Coffs? I’m talking about the intersection of Stadium Drive, the Pacific Hwy and Englands Road. The weeds have been left to grow in every

DEAR News Of The Area, Climate change is an all encompassing disaster. Proofs have made headlines for 40 years. In right wing circles, particularly the National Party, denial drags on. There's an audience for rejection, folk who dismiss research as existing in a rarefied field beyond "common sense". It's a catch

DEAR News Of The Area, WITH regard to the recent discussion regarding the native hardwood timber industry, can I suggest that every living organism on the planet has ‘skin in the game’ when it comes to our native forests. In an ideal world we would all be able to afford native

DEAR News Of The Area, THE NSW Land and Environment Court found on Monday that the harvest planner who signed off the harvest plans which decided what trees could be felled in Braemar and Myrtle State Forests was not accountable for meeting the legal requirement for maintaining ecologically sustainable forest management

DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to ask what has happened to the Coffs Coast. Have you had a good look lately? Roundabouts are an absolute disgrace. Driving into Coffs from the south the roundabout at England’s Road and Stadium Drive is completely full of weeds and rubbish –

SIR Ernest Shackleton and Sir Douglas Mawson are synonymous with Antarctica, as was their ship, Aurora. At 165 ft long, 31 ft wide and 18 ft deep, the 580 tons gross vessel was built for Arctic conditions in Dundee in 1876. Based in Liverpool, it was used as a whaler

DEAR News Of The Area, RECENTLY I’ve driven Stadium Drive, Coffs Harbour and stopped at the roundabout at the intersection of Pacific Highway and Stadium Drive. The weeds were at least one metre high there and it has become extremely hard to see if a vehicle is in the roundabout.

DEAR News Of The Area, AFTER my letter to your paper to try and get the Coffs Hospital hydrotherapy pool reopened and then you kindly did a story on this, the response was amazing. Emails by the dozens and the petition signed by over 100 folk that desperately need this exercise for