SO - the Jetty Foreshores. Why is it so important? Because this decision is now or never. We all want the area improved, but what is being proposed by the State Government takes it in the wrong direction and it will be lost forever. If the land is rezoned and sold,

DEAR News Of The Area, IT would seem there is not to be a huge retail future for the CBD. Sad to say it is my preferred shopping precinct. The availability for parking spots are diminishing and with the advent of a car parking area being taken for another large development, supposedly to

DEAR News Of The Area, LOGGING has recently begun in sections of Orara East State Forest in Karangi by Forestry Corp NSW. Given the fines and warnings that FC NSW has copped over logging activities in other State Forests, concern is running very high for local residents over what is planned

DEAR News Of The Area, THERE have been wallabies living in the bushland on Macauleys Headland for as long as I have been living here, that is at least 46 years. These marsupials regularly ventured as far south as the trees backing the former dunes behind the foreshores at Park Beach. The

DEAR News of The Area, THE final margin in the 2019 state election doesn’t tell the entire Coffs Harbour story. Over 10,000 voters exhausted their ballot by only numbering one. Half of Labor’s voters effectively put the Nationals over the line by not completing their ballot, same as Greens voters. 60 percent

DEAR News Of The Area, DES Foley (NOTA 10.3.23) is right to ask the question: “what sort of a country are we leaving to our grandchildren?”. But rather than focus on climate change, which poses an existential threat to the kind of planet that our grandchildren will

DEAR News of the Area, AUSTRALIA is very fortunate to have preferential voting as it means you don’t risk wasting your vote when you vote for an independent or small party candidate – your second and later preferences mean your vote will still count if your preferred candidate’s first preference vote

DEAR News Of The Area, THE Greens vision for a sustainable food system (as outlined in NOTA, March 10) should be welcomed as a positive approach to ultimately ending food waste in NSW. Another big issue though - here on the Coffs Coast and elsewhere - is the existence of

DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE noticed the increased after hours speeding along the straight strip of Hogbin Drive between Park Beach and Arthur Street. This section of road (and also Ford Street) is being used as a “drag” strip with vehicles and motorcycles travelling up to 90 km per hour. At

DEAR News Of The Area, I NOTE that the NSW Liberal and Nationals Government have announced free parking at Coffs Harbour Health Campus from 1 July 2023 if re-elected (NOTA 10 March 2023). Parking fees were introduced there several years ago, with the argument that such a move would reduce the