Coffs City staff and councillors.
Coffs City staff and councillors. Brad Daymond and Glenn Aylwood drum up the fundraising. The 42 Band entertains. FOLLOWING a magnificently successful Mayoral Ball benefiting the charity Coffs Kids, the City’s Mayor, Cr Nikki Williams, is sharing the committee’s plans for where the fundraising total of more than $70,000 will go. The 2026 Mayoral Ball […]
Coffs Harbour kicks off the next stage of the local ‘Voices’ movement. Photo: V4MNC.
VOICES 4 Mid North Coast (V4MNC) recently launched a new phase of grassroots action, involving 70 people across two events in Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie. The group has grown out of ‘Voices 4 Cowper’ to become an ongoing, community-led movement for the region, from Wauchope to Woolgoogla and beyond. It describes itself as an […]
COFFS Harbour Breast Cancer Buddies (CHBCB) are supporting the local screening of a documentary, Conquering Breast Cancer, showing at Coffs BCC Cinema on Sunday 16 August. A feature-length documentary, Conquering Breast Cancer shares the inspiring stories of breast cancer patients, survivors, families and researchers, while exploring the realities of diagnosis, treatment and the lasting impact […]
Visitors in the Archibald Prize 2025 exhibition at Yarrila Arts and Museum featuring (left-right) Fiona Lowry Ken Done, Angela Brennan Bridget in my painting.
Visitors in the Archibald Prize 2025 exhibition at Yarrila Arts and Museum featuring (left-right) Fiona Lowry Ken Done, Angela Brennan Bridget in my painting. Visitors in the Archibald Prize 2025 exhibition at Yarrila Arts and Museum featuring (left-right) Fiona Lowry Ken Done, Angela Brennan Bridget in my painting. Visitors in the Archibald Prize 2025 exhibition […]
Pianist Glenn Amer. Bass-baritone Warwick-Fyfe. Alan Gee presents a free pre-concert poetry reading. COFFS Harbour Music Society’s upcoming concert, The Great Aussie Songbook and the Empire, presents a unique blend of Australian history and patriotism with a little opera thrown in. It is a compilation of widely appealing music that the Society’s president, Dr Leigh […]
Anita Tang (L) and Stephanie Sims with their fellow crafters at the first Maker Movie Night. Photo: Anita Tang.
KNITTING needles, crochet hooks, sketchbooks and stitching came together in Sawtell on Wednesday 29 July for the inaugural Maker Movie Night, a relaxed community event pairing hands-on creativity with a screening of Little Women, at Sawtell Cinema. Approximately 110 people attended the evening which blended film, creativity, and community, offering a welcoming space for the […]
LOCAL author Carmen Allen has celebrated an outstanding milestone in the wake of the release of her latest book, reaching the ‘#1’ spot on Amazon Australia’s Best Sellers rankings in multiple categories, among them Christian Death & Grief Counselling, and Christian Inspiration, on 18 and 19 June. The latest book, Grief’s Gift, is part memoir, […]
Mid twentieth-century local Italians on a festival float in Coffs Harbour (Tasma Theatre in the background).
Mid twentieth-century local Italians on a festival float in Coffs Harbour (Tasma Theatre in the background). Local Italians playing Bocce. Photos: CCIHG. THE Coffs Coast Italian Heritage Group (CCIHG) is bringing together authentic Italian food, music, history and family entertainment for its inaugural Festa Italiana, with all profits supporting the Coffs Harbour Health Campus Children’s […]
Mythopoetic storyteller Nathan Meola. Photo: Supplied. Nathan performs at Bellingen Story Circle. Photo: Supplied. NEWS Of The Area stepped into the world of Bellingen’s resident storyteller, Nathan Meola, to uncover the ancient art of oral storytelling. Nathan’s path to storytelling is curious and meandering. After early life challenges and a career in personal training, a […]
Pipers Sharon Ray and mum, Jeanette Baldwin, with Cathy Suley.
Lining up for Mass Bands parade on Collins Street, Melbourne. Pipers Sharon Ray and mum, Jeanette Baldwin, with Cathy Suley. Tenor drummer Dale Rogers. COFFS Coast Pipes and Drums band members, pipers Cathy Suley and Jeanette Baldwin and tenor drummer Dale Rogers, participated in a successful world-record attempt celebrating women in pipe bands. The historic […]
