DEAR News Of The Area, OUR local off-leash dog beaches are fantastic spaces for high-energy dogs to run and play. However, growing tension on the sand suggests it’s time for a new approach. Regularly, owners of elderly, disabled, or post-surgery dogs use these off-leash zones for gentle exercise. This creates an impossible clash. An enthusiastic […]
DEAR News Of The Area, MY husband is a third-generation banana farmer and we live and farm in Bonville. We are lifelong Coffs locals. My grandfather grew bananas, back in the day, right next door to our farm. I also serve as the Public Officer for the Coffs Harbour and District Banana Growers Association, and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE NSW Government’s proposed changes to bag limits for snapper and yellowtail kingfish should concern every recreational fisher in this state. Once again, recreational fishers appear to be the easiest target when the Government wants to be seen to be doing something about fish stocks. But where is the evidence […]
ON Thursday, 9 September 2026, in Bongil Bongil National Park, mountainbike riders were horrified to find a load of Coles-branded bread, in plastic bags, dumped at the side of a road. Labels and use-by-dates indicated this had come from a local Coles store before sadly being dumped in native bushland. The riders cleaned up the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHILE the Western World pauses to remember the shock and horror of 9/11 a quarter of a century ago, and the names of the approximately 3000 people who died on that fateful day are solemnly read out, I wonder if the most important questions are perhaps still not being asked […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WE, and many other community members, are dismayed and outraged at Coles’ decision to end supply of local goods, such as bananas, in local Coles stores. We like shopping at Coles but we will all shop at Woolies if this decision remains unchanged. Have the Coles CEOs thought about the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE residents of the Upper Orara Road would be pleased if the Coffs Harbour City Council could explain why the repair to the Upper Orara Road culvert just south of the Orara Hall is taking so long. The road has been cut for five weeks at the time of writing. […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I SUGGEST to all shoppers in the Coffs Harbour area that if Coles follow through in their intention to not buy local bananas that we boycott their supermarkets in our area. Apart from this latest move on their part, I gave up shopping in the Coffs Harbour store for the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in regards to your recent front-page article (‘Coles cuts Coffs’, NOTA, 4/9/6). I’m with our local banana growers. It’s an absolute disgrace that Coles are now bringing bananas all the way from Queensland to sell in their Coffs Coast supermarkets instead of local fruit. In nine years of […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in reply to Wayne Duesbury (‘Facts speak louder than a Google search’, NOTA, 4/9/26). Judging by the figures presented by Mr Duesbury, he is touting the views of a particular, long-discredited geologist, whose first book is one of the two in my long life (the other was ‘Mein […]
