March 26, 2026
Landcare Awards celebrate dedicated volunteers 2025 Pia Dollmann award winner Nick Lambert with Mayor Nikki Williams.
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Landcare Awards celebrate dedicated volunteers

2025 Pia Dollmann award winner Nick Lambert with Mayor Nikki Williams. Mayor Nikki Williams with Dee Wallace Award winners, Green Bluff Landcare: Jan Allen, Deb Kelly, Craig Bellamy, Cathy Willis and Lindy Davis. Eileen Moody Award winner John Wackett with Mayor Nikki Williams and Cr Jonathan Cassell. COFFS Harbour Regional Landcare’s (CHRL) annual awards took […]

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Red Cross Coffs Harbour donates to Food Fix ahead of trivia fundraiser for local homeless Red Cross Coffs Harbour members Trish Mill, Brooke Bottrell and Biannca Mill with Food Fix’s Troy Arvidson.
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Red Cross Coffs Harbour donates to Food Fix ahead of trivia fundraiser for local homeless

THE Coffs Harbour branch of the Red Cross is holding a morning of trivia in support of Food Fix, a local charity founded by Troy Arvidson that provides nutritious meals and vital support to people who are homeless or struggling to make ends meet. Red Cross Trivia Morning takes place on Tuesday, 19 November from […]

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Letter to the Editor: Getting out more
Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Getting out more

DEAR News Of The Area, IT seems to me that some of our politicians need to get out more. Some of my family members are taking great satisfaction in the negligible prices they are paying for energy in their home and car since going solar. These are the people the Liberals/Nationals should be asking about […]

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Back to Bowra Festival on track for bumper day Gearing up for Back to Bowra are Nambucca Valley Deputy Mayor James Angel and Mayor Gary Lee, with their billy carts freshly scrutineered and deemed safe to race on Saturday 15 November.
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Back to Bowra Festival on track for bumper day

Gearing up for Back to Bowra are Nambucca Valley Deputy Mayor James Angel and Mayor Gary Lee, with their billy carts freshly scrutineered and deemed safe to race on Saturday 15 November. Back to Bowra Committee President Gav McKinnon test drives one of the billy carts created for Back to Bowra by Nambucca Valley Rotary. […]

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Letter to the Editor: Memorial placement
Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Memorial placement

DEAR News Of The Area, I READ with interest the article in News Of The Area dated 7 November, with respect to the proposed site(s) of the reconstructed WWII war memorial. Many years ago, a consortium which was attempting to rebuild the memorial, entered into discussions with the local Council about those sites. Both of […]

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Free grain and bait on offer in statewide offensive on feral pigs The cost to farmers of grain for feral pig trapping and baiting can be significant. Photo: supplied.
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Free grain and bait on offer in statewide offensive on feral pigs

LANDHOLDERS across NSW are being encouraged to take advantage of $850,000 worth of free grain and bait on offer as part of a statewide crackdown on feral pigs. The funding is part of the Government’s Feral Pig and Pest Program with funding from the State’s more than $1 billion biosecurity budget. It is the third […]

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OPINION: Reflections on the 1975 constitutional crisis
Opinion

OPINION: Reflections on the 1975 constitutional crisis

THE dismissal of the Whitlam Government in November 1975 highlighted the fragility of our parliamentary and constitutional system and the danger that, if the various constitutional norms that protect that system are ignored, the democratic system itself can be weakened. The real villains in the whole affair were two State Premiers who went against a […]

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