DEAR News Of The Area, TODAY, I had insightful conversations with a small business owner and a financial expert from Sydney about the current state of the economy. The owner of a long-established restaurant in Coffs Harbour mentioned that he believed Labor wasn’t supportive of small businesses. I asked him if he

DEAR News Of The Area, OUR family has had over a 150-year association with life on and around the Coffs Harbour coastline and the beauty that is the Jetty Foreshores. My grandparents raised sixteen children on the banks of Coffs Creek. They were fishermen, lifesavers, footballers and hard-working community-minded people who loved where

DEAR News Of The Area, WHILST fully appreciating and sympathising with the role of Norco farmers and workers I wonder about the lack of moral outrage when Norco previously and unceremoniously dropped Northpower as their electricity provider in a period where Northpower employees, many of them local, were going through their

DEAR News Of The Area, AN excellent and most comprehensive overview of the litany of neglected State-owned assets in Coffs Harbour from Ms Anne Leonard (NOTA 20/09). Thankfully the recent poll showing that 70 percent of residents are vehemently opposed to privately-owned residential development at the Jetty should stop the continuation

DEAR News Of The Area, AS children growing up in the Kalang Valley in the ‘70s my siblings and I witnessed first hand the devastating impact of excessive logging upon the river. Following the intensive bulldozer logging of the ‘60s and early ‘70s we had huge floods in 1975 and

DEAR News Of The Area, THE results for the Mayoral election in Nambucca Valley have been finalised and the results are worth examining. At the end of the distribution of preferences Gary Lee was elected with 54.12 percent of the valid votes. The first thing to note is that 18.3 percent of