DEAR News Of The Area, LAST week, whilst driving in a 60km zone on Solitary Islands Way near Woolgoolga High School, I saw a stunned kookaburra sitting about 300cm from the centre line of the road. As safely as I could I pulled over and tried desperately to direct vehicles away

BORN in 1868 at Vegetable Creek (Emmaville) to Daniel and Elizabeth Levy, William ‘Bill’ Maurice Levy resided for over forty years in the Coffs Harbour district. On 3 December 1896 at Coramba, he married Hannah Knox and had five sons and two daughters. He had a keen interest in gold mining,

DEAR News Of The Area, AFTER three attempts to get my 81-year-old husband into hospital, a specialist doctor advised I phone for an ambulance again this morning and have him admitted, where he would be able to give him the treatment required. I phoned for an ambulance at 10am which arrived

Dear News of the Area, I RESPOND to the letter by Wayne Duesbury, “More misrepresentation of facts” (NOTA 17/1/2025), in which he accuses me of “a glaring misrepresentation” and “resorting to devious tactics to support an argument” . I had stated in a previous letter that larger older trees store the most

DEAR News Of The Area, I naively went to a bank at the Park Beach Plaza to purchase some US dollars for tips for a planned cruise in December. I was expecting to front up to the cashier, put in my order and be told when the currency would be available

DEAR News Of The Area, REGARDING a letter from Con Van Darrel of Sawtell (Friday 17/1/25), “The privilege of being Aussie”, this little letter should be published in very large print on the front page of your paper if you love Australia as this man does and as I do. I

THE Member for Oxley Michael Kemp appears to be the National’s new kid on the block when it comes to justifying native forest logging in our coastal forests. Repeating the same old National Party mantra over and over again doesn’t make it true. He would do well to read David

DEAR News Of The Area, AT a busy set of traffic lights on the Pacific Highway in south Coffs today, I was waiting in the left turn-off lane when I saw a duck and chicks crossing on the green pedestrian signal. The pleasure I felt rapidly turned to anxiety when I

DEAR News Of The Area, LAST week, some of our incredible campaign volunteers - ordinary community members, including one in their 80s, standing peacefully on the street asking people to share their concerns - faced threats, harassment, and intimidation. They were doing nothing more than engaging in grassroots democracy, an act