DEAR News Of The Area, AT the Council meeting held on Thursday 28 August, 2025, there was a motion to endorse recommendations from the 2025/26 Environmental Levy Grants Program Panel. Various organisations had applied for funding. Sixteen submissions were received and 11 submissions were recommended for approval. Mayor Williams added an additional point to this […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WITH council’s proposed outsourcing of lifeguards, an important issue that appears to have been overlooked is the role surf-lifesaving plays in introducing young people to the culture of volunteering and community service. Volunteer lifesavers have a strong sense of purpose and social connection that starts with Nippers under ten years […]
DEAR News Of The Area, It’s just a footbridge at Moonee, not a bypass! Half a million dollars for design and planning approvals with no foreseen funding at this stage to rebuild the bridge. And with a suggestion of at least five years since closure before there may be a replacement pedestrian bridge. That’s ludicrous. […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I REFER to the article in the newspaper on 22 August 2025 with regards to the rebuilding of the Woolgoolga Great War Memorial. It is heartening to finally see an interest in rebuilding this memorial. An attempt was made many years ago, but the Woolgoolga sub-Branch and Council were not […]
DEAR News Of The Area, UNSURPRISINGLY, the rhetoric used by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli and US government spokespeople following the recent Australian Government announcement on qualified recognition of Palestine statehood, follows a pretty standard formula. It starts with a one-sided focus on the terrorist atrocities and hostage-taking carried out by Hamas on […]
LIKE many fast-growing centres on the North Coast, Coffs Harbour is facing something of a perfect storm on the housing front. Real estate prices surged during Covid, and more recently we’ve seen rents continue to climb. Combined with a shortage of affordable housing stock and the broader cost-of-living pressures being felt across the nation, this […]
DEAR News Of The Area, YOU cannot be serious! $500k just for design and planning application. Still no decision after how many years? Too many committees of bureaucrats who cannot and will not make a decision as it might upset some woke do gooder somewhere. There was a perfectly good bridge (the old Bowen Bridge […]
DEAR News Of The Area, PROPERTY and Development NSW is proposing multi-story development at the Jetty. This approach is supported by our local council. This proposal will create very significant and permanent harm to the character of the Jetty Foreshore. Every building in the Foreshore area is single level – the Yacht Club, the new […]
DEAR News Of The Area, Residents and ratepayers in the Bellingen Shire, Clarence Valley and Coffs Harbour LGAs should be worried and informed. Antimony and other metals are being explored for mining on the Dorrigo Plateau again. It is time to take a stand for nature, common sense and science by declaring Dorrigo Plateau and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to make a few points with reference to MP Michael Kemp’s response to a letter delivered to his office on Wednesday 23 July by KoaLa Man (Peter Elzer). The event was reported in the Macleay Argus (online Friday, 25 July and in print Saturday, 2 August). On […]
