DEAR News Of The Area, I REFER to last week’s letter from Zieta Hicks regarding the recently created bus zone in Marina Drive at the Jetty Foreshores. This new bus zone takes away five valuable parking spaces from general use. I, like many other locals, have been wondering about

DEAR News Of The Area, IN her letter "More fantasy than facts on forestry", (NOTA 10/1/25) Judith Kirkwood writes, "Storing carbon in forests is critical to slowing climate change. Science shows that larger, older trees store the most carbon, not regrowth after logging." This is a clear misrepresentation of the facts. While

DEAR News Of The Area, I DON’T know how many of you remember in 1987, when a bushfire burnt right to the edge of town. I was living in York Street then, and I remember the washing I had left on the line being full of little black holes where the

DEAR News Of The Area, WHEN someone with a vested interest in an activity provides facts about said activity we would do well to question these “facts” (We all know what happened to Little Red Riding Hood when she believed the spin from the Big Bad Wolf). The recent letter

DEAR News Of The Area, WORLD-renowned Zurich-based scientist and ecologist Tom Crowther has recently been featured on ABC Television in an outstanding and revealing documentary "The Forest". It tells the story of over two hundred collaborating scientists, a massive database, and a five-year project to understand the true potential of Earth's

DEAR News Of The Area, I share an optimistic outlook voiced in the opinion article ‘Undermining hope in society’ published 10 January 2025. I too hold hope and faith in this country and its citizens, I too live in the most beautiful part of the best nation in the world, and

DEAR News Of The Area, THIS morning I inspected the work our Council has been engaged in to repair the Norrie Park Reserve in Kendall. The last flood extensively damaged the river embankment and a series of floods have left the walkway underneath the Kendall Bridge in a hazardous condition. I

FROM 1 January, Australians will now pay more than $400 for a 10-year passport. Of course the five-year version is cheaper, but still outrageously expensive. This means that our hidden nation at the bottom of the Pacific now has the world's most expensive passport, leading Mexico at $353.90 and New Zealand

DEAR News Of The Area, AT this time every year the main topic of conversation is the problem with jet skis – this year is no different. In what has become an emotive topic, let’s take a cool-headed approach to the issue to find a suitable outcome. Firstly, let me congratulate our