DEAR News Of The Area, WRITING to support a very good letter from Peter G Farquhar about this in the 17/02/2023 edition of NOTA. His suggestions about how the current mobile traffic jams at this intersection could be reduced are excellent and would be relatively easy to achieve. It would be a good

DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to congratulate NSW Health and the State Government on the new Coffs Harbour Hospital. I was visiting a friend last week who had been admitted to the surgical ward of the new section of the hospital. I was most impressed with the three

THE doctor and Mr Leonard, the shire engineer, remained at the house with the patient, his sister Violet, and his mother who had travelled from their family home at Orara to help Violet nurse him. After the doctor and shire engineer.arranged what supplies they could get at that late hour,

DEAR News Of The Area, LAST month I decided one morning to cycle from the jetty area to Korora – for the first time ever. I moved to the area just four years ago and haven’t been very active on my bicycle till now. I then discovered that the shared bicycle

THE most frustrating communication tool we have is our TV set. It should be a simple exercise of just switching it on for the news or the entertainment we need. Would you like to watch tennis, football or any other world class sporting event or even the local evening TV news?

DEAR News Of The Area, THE Coffs Harbour Local Government Area (LGA) stretches approximately 67km from Bonville in the south to Red Rock in the north and 45km west to Brooklana and Nana Glen. For this 1,174 square kilometres we are represented by nine councillors. But did you know that seven of the

WE are all likely to attend events at our wonderful City facilities such as the Jetty Memorial Theatre and C.ex Coffs International Stadium. But have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes to make these events possible? Let’s use an elite sporting fixture held at C.ex Coffs

DEAR News Of The Area, IN July 2022 Council wrote to the Government seeking to be appointed as manager of the surplus land that is currently leased to the Australian Rail Track Corp (ARTC). That land is generally west of Jordan Esplanade and north of Marina Parade extending to Happy Valley. In

DEAR News Of The Area, MANY questions have been raised regarding the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament. ‘Don’t we already have enough Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations?’ is a common one. It is true that there are already many Indigenous organisations but Indigenous people are saying that they feel that they are

DEAR News Of The Area, I WAS interested to read the article in last week's paper talking about the discrepancies in the fuel prices over the holiday period. I personally have never seen fuel prices cheaper in Coffs than in Macksville. Where we can get cheaper fuel is in Kempsey, especially now