NAMBUCCA VALLEY News Of The Area (NOTA) is seeking a freelance reporter to cover the operations of Nambucca Valley Council, as well as general reporters to cover general local news. The ideal Council role candidate will have a background in journalism or professional writing and passion for and understanding of

DEAR News Of The Area, THE Knitting Nannas Coffs Harbour Loop knows quite a lot about forests contrary to the recent opinions of Peter Paunovic (NOTA 5 May 2023). We have members who are expert ecologists. We conduct and report on citizen science data collection in native and plantation state

DEAR News Of The Area, FROM before May 10 2018 the residents of Woolgoolga have been waiting for a new foot bridge. In the overall scheme of things, we know that it is one of many small capital items that the City is dealing with and that times are now just

DEAR News Of The Area, BOB Kennedy asks ‘who do politicians really represent?’ (NOTA 5/5/23) and attacks both Messrs Dutton and Littleproud for opposing ‘the Voice’, suggesting they are doing so only for political purposes. May I suggest that it may be that they are aware of the potential risk to the

DEAR News Of the Area, TO Peter Paunovic (‘How much do protestors know about native forestry?’, NOTA, 5 May 2023) I say it’s a bit hairy-chested for a youngish fellow like you to take on the Knitting Nannas about how much they know about how forests grow. I suspect they can all

DEAR News Of The Area, I’VE looked at hundreds of logging industry photos taken in the 1950's and early 60's. Loaded log trucks carried trees of great size. Girth gave cuts of stable timber of plank dimensions. By the early 1970's, large remaining trees became hard to find. Likewise

DEAR News Of The Area, GOOD to see we have a local Advisory Group who are onto it. Our housing crisis started years ago by lack of Government planning, and more recently because we are over-populated, with many more to come as recently rumoured. We need a good investigative journalist to

I WOKE up this morning and started interacting with our City services without even appreciating it. I brushed my teeth with City of Coffs Harbour supplied water, then after putting the garbage out for the City of Coffs contractor to collect, I walked the City of Coffs footpath, past the

TELLING the incredible stories of the Nambucca Valley is what News Of The Area (NOTA) is all about. The NOTA launched in the Valley in May 2021, and is proud to keep locals up to date with the happenings of the area. Now, NOTA is seeking more enthusiastic locals with a

DEAR News Of The Area, REGARDING an article in the 21 April edition of Coffs Coast NOTA regarding memorial plaques at Bonville Headland. Reference is made to "just a handful" and "the dozen or so" memorial plaques. There are at least 25 of these plaques, and these are increasing at a