January 3, 2026
Letter to the Editor: An incredibly moving moment
Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: An incredibly moving moment

DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD just like to send a big thank you to the management, staff, shopkeepers and shoppers at Park Beach Plaza. This Remembrance Day they held a minute’s silence. Shopkeepers turned off noisy machines, silenced their music and everyone stood head bowed in respectful silence. It was incredibly moving to […]

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Letter to the Editor: The great koala exodus
Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: The great koala exodus

DEAR News Of The Area, WHAT a busy place the Great Koala National Park will be, with loggers being replaced with four wheel drive vehicles, pistol shooters, mountain bike riders, archers, and that scourge of every quiet neighbourhood, trail bikes. I’m sure this is not what the Knitting Nannas envisaged when they chained themselves to […]

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Legal Hypothetical: The high price of proof
Hypothetical

Legal Hypothetical: The high price of proof

SALLY and Harry have been married for 25 years. Sally transfers her home into joint names with Harry as “joint tenants”. Five years later, Sally is moved into a care facility and passes-away two years later at the age of 85. Sally leaves a daughter from a previous relationship, Penny. When Penny discovers that as […]

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‘On the couch’ with Jasminda
Jasminda's Advice

‘On the couch’ with Jasminda

DEAR Jasminda, I’ve been invited to the staff Christmas party but the people going are hard partiers and I always end up being the designated driver. I’m aware there’s an expectation for me to remain under-the-limit to ferry all the guests home. I’m thinking I might not go for this reason. Harriet L. Dear Harriet, […]

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Remembrance Day: Dorothy’s story
Opinion

Remembrance Day: Dorothy’s story

MY mum, Dorothy Smith, was born on 14 December 1919 in a small mining settlement in outback Queensland called Kuridala. She had three brothers – one older and two younger. Her father was a mine manager, and the family lived there several years before moving to Papua New Guinea when Mum was two. The family […]

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From the Mayor’s desk: Cr Nikki WIlliams
From The Mayor's Desk

From the Mayor’s desk: Cr Nikki WIlliams

FOR those who’ve been around Coffs for a while, you’ll have noticed how much Park Beach has been changing. It’s become one of our strongest areas for new housing, with major developments like Shoreline and the new retirement and residential precinct now reaching key milestones – the Watermark Apartments are on track for residents to […]

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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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