DEAR News Of The Area, WE live in Sawtell where, like many seaside places, there are a lot of sub-divisions and big houses being built. Most tradesmen around here are respectful, but why do some tradies have to have loud music and radio noise all the time? How is Bob Marley reggae blasting out in […]

DEAR News Of The Area, CAN anyone, readers or a medical practitioner, explain the protocol if a GP/specialist is leaving the area or retiring? Our first experience came with a well-known local specialist centre. If we attended four or five times in a row and saw the same doctor, that would be considered a long […]

DEAR News Of The Area, HAS the Coffs Coast just become the koala capital of Australia? As a City representative of the Great Koala National Park’s Community Advisory Panel and longtime community campaigner for the Parks establishment, I believe the announcement for the full Great Koala National Park is a major historic moment for our […]

DEAR News Of The Area, Regarding the article on page 7 of NOTA on Friday, 5 September 2025 titled “Support in the aftermath of natural disaster”. This item mentions a “natural disaster” meaning flooding events. The reality is that these extreme weather events are no longer “natural events”. By calling them “natural events”, the general […]

DEAR News Of The Area, DOES anyone else have a sinking feeling that the planned footbridge over the Moonee Creek estuary will be a monument to the ego of the engineers who designed it, rather than a modest pedestrian crossing designed to fit into the environment? I can see it now, a large concrete structure, […]

DEAR News Of The Area, Recently I read the article on homelessness (‘Lost opportunity to solve homelessness’, p4, 5 September issue). This is not a new problem. Consultation, reviewing drafts, needing to deliver real change and saying the Council has acknowledged the problem sounds like just words repeating endlessly. This article should be about what […]

DEAR News Of The Area, UNSEEN by city and suburban eyes, much of the forests and farmland of our country, from far-north Queensland to Tasmania, are being devastated by uncaring multi-national renewable-energy companies, at the invitation of an ignorant Australian government. Approval of the Robbins Island wind project is the latest and greatest in the […]

DEAR News Of The Area, In response to “EPA investigates more Brush Turkey deaths”, p2, 29 August edition. I get it… Brush Turkeys are not the best looking birds and have some annoying habits, like digging. But, we do have laws, which we hope will deter the malicious killing of our indigenous species. Brush Turkeys […]