DEAR News Of The Area, OUR family has had over a 150-year association with life on and around the Coffs Harbour coastline and the beauty that is the Jetty Foreshores. My grandparents raised sixteen children on the banks of Coffs Creek. They were fishermen, lifesavers, footballers and hard-working community-minded people who loved where

DEAR News Of The Area, WHILST fully appreciating and sympathising with the role of Norco farmers and workers I wonder about the lack of moral outrage when Norco previously and unceremoniously dropped Northpower as their electricity provider in a period where Northpower employees, many of them local, were going through their

DEAR News Of The Area, AN excellent and most comprehensive overview of the litany of neglected State-owned assets in Coffs Harbour from Ms Anne Leonard (NOTA 20/09). Thankfully the recent poll showing that 70 percent of residents are vehemently opposed to privately-owned residential development at the Jetty should stop the continuation

DEAR News Of The Area, AS children growing up in the Kalang Valley in the ‘70s my siblings and I witnessed first hand the devastating impact of excessive logging upon the river. Following the intensive bulldozer logging of the ‘60s and early ‘70s we had huge floods in 1975 and

DEAR News Of The Area, THE results for the Mayoral election in Nambucca Valley have been finalised and the results are worth examining. At the end of the distribution of preferences Gary Lee was elected with 54.12 percent of the valid votes. The first thing to note is that 18.3 percent of

DEAR News Of The Area, In his letter from 26 September, Ben Abbott asks who is going to come forward and make it clear what misinformation is being spread. Please allow me. Let us look at what's been put out there by each side to date. Statements from the Government and supporters of

DEAR News Of The Area, DURING the recent council election, I was asked why so much of the Port Stephens community was opposed to a floating industrial zone on our ocean. I replied that many of us are haunted by the thought that our grandchildren would see hordes of massive metal towers

DEAR News Of The Area, AS an older person, like “Jack”, I am alright now - but I worry about the future hospital conditions that will face us all. The standards of nursing we will receive in future years is important to everyone because NSW can’t keep the nurses they train. There

ON behalf of the Dungog and Gloucester communities, I want to say thank you to the publisher of News Of The Area for the decision to step-up to ensure residents continue to have a local newspaper. I hope both communities will now support the Gloucester NOTA and the Dungog NOTA by

I’D like to take this opportunity to congratulate the News Of The Area newspaper group on “spreading its wings” further afield and establishing a new publication covering the Dungog Shire. Many locals rely on their local newspaper to find out about what has, is and will be happening in our community. As