Jai Waters (centre) and friends with her Eclectic Selection works.
Jai Waters (centre) and friends with her Eclectic Selection works. Printmakers Barb Newby, Annie Olive, Karen Thio and Margie Hawtin with their “Woopi” mini prints. Jo and Barb Newby with Robin Appleby’s “Beach Bodies”. Roz Stone with her painting “Winter on Collins”. WOOLGOOLGA Art Gallery’s current exhibition “Eclectic Selection” is a fitting title for a […]
Bellingen Shire Mayor Steve Allan and Port Macquarie-Hastings Mayor Adam Roberts meet with Roads Minister Jenny Aitchison.
BELLINGEN Shire Council is ramping up its call for urgent action on a viable alternative route for Waterfall Way, following a third major landslip in two months. On Tuesday 13 May, Waterfall Way was closed at Gordonville Cutting due to a landslip, limiting vehicle access to Dorrigo and surrounding Plateau communities. Motorists were left to […]
Freemason Brother Stan Gordon, Joe Roach, co-ordinator of the soup kitchen Phil Crofts, Peter Ratcliff and Geoff Meehan making a presentation to the Soup Place, on behalf of Masonic Lodges in the Coffs Clarence area.
MEMBERS of the Coffs Harbour and Sawtell Masonic Lodges have donated goods to the Uniting Church Soup Place. “We provided them with packages of food and other items that can be used for crisis packs for those suffering homelessness and hardship,” Brother Stan Gordon told News Of The Area. The Coffs Harbour Soup Kitchen, also […]
THE Coffs Coast community commemorated National Road Safety Week (NRSW) with a solemn ceremony at the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden on Thursday 15 May. Organised by the City of Coffs Harbour, the ceremony was held alongside a yellow-flowering Remembrance Garden, where guests could write the name of a loved one on a tribute ribbon. […]
An artist’s impression of the proposed Dorrigo Arc Rainforest Centre’s protected courtyard for storytelling. Image: Studio Hollenstein.
AN environmental review of the Dorrigo Arc Rainforest Centre proposal is now available online, with community members invited to have their say. The proposed $32 million information and education centre has been designed to attract visitors to Dorrigo National Park, with improved facilities such as parking, picnic areas and amenities. It is also the start […]
Award recipients Kenji Arendalh (Bray Street Butchery), Shane Hailes (Coffs Coast Wildlife Sanctuary), Stefan Markgraaff (Park Beach Butcher), Natalie Watson (Shearwater Lodge), Allan Watson (Orara High School), Leah White (Treeo Café), Happy Chin Tial (Coffs Haven Residential Care), Taylah Snell (The Lakes Village), and Sarah O’Reilly (Shearwater Lodge).
Award recipients Kenji Arendalh (Bray Street Butchery), Shane Hailes (Coffs Coast Wildlife Sanctuary), Stefan Markgraaff (Park Beach Butcher), Natalie Watson (Shearwater Lodge), Allan Watson (Orara High School), Leah White (Treeo Café), Happy Chin Tial (Coffs Haven Residential Care), Taylah Snell (The Lakes Village), and Sarah O’Reilly (Shearwater Lodge). Employer recipients Dr Paul Moran (Shearwater Lodge), […]
NATIONAL Road Safety Week founder Peter Frazer OAM, says he was surprised by the number of people affected by road accidents during his visit to Coffs Harbour. As president of the Safer Australian Roads and Highways Group (SARAH), Mr Frazer has been conducting an East Coast roadshow to present facts and figures about safe driving […]
Stay a While My Lovelies by Robyn Jackson. Robyn Jackson’s Morning Song. Wild Flowers by Robyn Jackson. Robyn Jackson’s Follow the Sun. MID North Coast silk artist Robyn Jackson is exhibiting “A Work of H’art” at Bellingen’s Nexus Art Gallery from 25 May to 19 June. With a Bachelor of […]
Volunteers work in teams with scientist partners to count and identify water bugs.
Macro Muster volunteers look for waterbugs in a sample. Volunteers work in teams with scientist partners to count and identify water bugs. Volunteers can collect a sample from the river during the day of the Macro Muster. BELLINGEN-based environmental charity OzGREEN is back with its eighth Macro Muster, a free citizen science event based at […]
Representatives from Shearwater Lodge, Tour de Rocks and the Rotary Club of Coffs
Harbour with the project lead of the SABR technique Sarah Edwards (front right) at Mid North Coast Cancer Institute.
KIDNEY cancer patients on the Mid North Coast will soon have a new treatment option – Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR). It is due to the combined generosity of Coffs Harbour’s Shearwater Lodge, Tour de Rocks Limited and the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour. The SABR technique delivers a high dose of radiotherapy with extreme […]
