FORMER Coffs Harbour School boy Glenn George, now Manager at Advanced Operational Support, is this year’s NSW Public Servant of the Year. This award recognises an individual who demonstrates a commitment to shaping an exceptional public service. Working within the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and living on the Coffs Coast, […]

SURF Life Saving NSW has installed three new Emergency Response Beacons (ERBs) at Diggers Beach, North Wall, and Bonville Headland. ERBs directly connect callers to Surf Life Saving NSW’s State Operations Centre, enabling the rapid deployment of lifesaving and emergency services to a potential rescue site. Most recently, an ERB at Suffolk Park on the […]

THE launch of Michel Vimal Du Monteil’s action/mystery thriller “Where to Now” on Friday 7 November at the Coffs Harbour Golf Club, was both informative and entertaining. A short promotional video set the tone for the intriguing tale of a jaded Australian investment banker with a cosmopolitan background flush with hijinks, subterfuge, double crossing and […]

KOALA Azaliah and her joey Zali were hit by a car not long after 40 eucalyptus trees in their home were destroyed. Mother and baby recovered after intensive care at Northern Rivers Koala Hospital in Lismore, NSW, and were released back into the wild in October. But another joey, Guinevere, was not so fortunate, dying […]

THE recent Reclaim the Night march in Coffs Harbour served as a harrowing reminder of the extent and impact of gender-based violence in the community. The statistics are wholly alarming. The Facebook page ‘Counting Dead Women’ has recorded 43 violent deaths of women so far this year in Australia and the NSW Rape Crisis Centre […]

THE state government launched the $20 million Aquaculture Industry Development Program on Monday, aiming to strengthen and expand the seafood industry’s economic contribution to NSW. The program is designed to boost productivity and increase sustainability across farming operations for oysters, mussels, kelp, and algae, plus freshwater and marine fish hatcheries and bioproducts. “By investing in […]

CITY of Coffs Harbour councillors will decide next Thursday whether to publicly release the draft Aquatic Facilities Strategy for the Local Government Area. Sawtell residents are already unhappy with an expected recommendation to turn their pool into a “water-play facility”. The proposal is to: “maintain Sawtell Pool as a local-level facility until Coffs Harbour War […]

Deborah Kelly outlines the parameters of an imagined art work as religion. Deborah Kelly emboldened by her own visual montage. YARRILA Arts and Museum is showing some bold summer exhibitions in a bid to stimulate and provoke audiences. Open now is “CREATION”, the brainchild of contemporary artist Deborah Kelly, who claims to have started her […]

THE community koala surveys held annually in Bongil Bongil National Park have concluded for 2025. All five surveys this year were conducted during clear, calm and relatively warm nights, in stark contrast to the previous survey season, when two nights were washed out and strong winds hampered most of the surveys. Enthusiasm for the surveys, […]

THE cicadas have woken up on the Coffs Coast and have started chittering, albeit quietly this year. Last year, a deafening cacophony pulsated across the region, with human ears becoming attuned to the night-club-like volume that registered up to 120 decibels. However, this year’s annual pre-Christmas cicada concert is proving easier on the ear. News […]