DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE uncovered a dastardly move by Kempsey Council to be clandestine greenies. I researched Kempsey Council’s case for a 42.7 percent rate rise. I was shocked to see, buried deep inside one of their strategy documents, that they based their calculations on only one percent per annum

CAMDEN HAVEN News Of The Area (NOTA) is seeking more enthusiastic locals with a background in writing to join the team. “If you have a background in writing, and a passion for your local community, I would love to hear from you,” said NOTA Group Editor Douglas Connor. “As the paper

DEAR News Of The Area, IS it simply my imagination or is the standard of driving getting increasingly worse? Why do some drivers indicate right when going straight across a roundabout? Or worse, indicate right to exit a roundabout! Barely a day goes by without me seeing this. Why do so many

DEAR News Of The Area, AROUND 10.30am on the morning of Sunday 28 July at the Rotary Lookout off Parkes Street I was chatting to a group of young Argentinian men and women. They are working on farms in the Stuarts Point area. They were excited to see some whales out

DEAR News Of The Area, MY friends and I have just come back from the Jetty Memorial Theatre where we saw the wonderfully funny play, ‘A Vicar of Dibley Christmas: The Second Coming’. What a wonderful production by our community theatre group, CHATS. The clever Vicar, Geraldine Granger - the Dawn

DEAR News Of The Area, IN reference to the letter featured in NOTA (19 July) it was concerning to see the context of the letter that Mayor, Cr Paul Amos had addressed to a member of the public in relation to the responsibility of city beautification as featured in NOTA (5

DEAR News Of The Area, LAST May, the Mayor proposed that Council should approve an expenditure of $70,000 of ratepayers’ funds to have a question about the Jetty Foreshores development included as part of the September Council Elections. His proposal was approved by the majority of Councillors. Since the foreshores development plans

DEAR News Of The Area, WHEN visiting a friend, I picked up a small book about climate change by an Australian world renown climate scientist. It was frightening to hear the current reports on the escalation of the crises. She said only fifteen percent of Australians are aware of how dire

DEAR News Of The Area, ESSENTIAL food crops grown by farmers have advanced civilisation. Many people argue for a right to farm which is understandable particularly when legally producing an essential crop in a farming area. In parallel, science has proven that exposing unsuitable varieties of fruit or vegetables to the wrong