GREG passes-away and leaves his $1 million estate to his only surviving son, Craig. Greg’s only other son, died several years ago, leaving four children of his own, one of them being Peter. When Peter discovers that his grandfather had not included him in his will, he seeks legal advice and makes a “family provision” […]
The Bowraville Rec Club has offered its facilities for a ‘Meet the Mayor’ event on Monday, 12 May.
THE Bowraville Chamber of Commerce is hosting an opportunity for residents to meet their Nambucca Valley councillors. The morning tea event will be held on Monday 12 May from 11am at the Bowraville Recreation Club (Sports Hub). “Whilst this event is being called ‘Meet the Mayor’, it is actually an opportunity for members of the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, OUR country has chosen to die. Unrealised by most people, Australia is suffering from a terminal disease called Renewables-Only Net Zero, and we have just refused the only treatment that may have cured it. We now continue a slow but inevitable decline towards a debilitating death, a decline which to […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WROTE to NOTA some time ago urging all candidates in the Federal election to address the scourge of racism as a fundamental principle of our democracy and our ongoing national commitment to universal human rights. Sadly, this was not apparent in the just completed campaign. On the face of […]
TWO talented young rugby league players from the Nambucca Valley have been selected to represent NSW Country Under 18s, marking a significant milestone in their already impressive careers. Toby Batten, from the Nambucca Roosters, and Rielly Laverty, of the Macksville Sea Eagles, have both been named in the prestigious side following years of development through […]
The current Macksville Medical Centre team.
MACKSVILLE Medical Centre is celebrating 50 years of operation on Wallace Street this month. Lesa Hennessey remembers being rushed to the Centre, covered in blood and glass in the back of her grandma’s car, when she was five years old. She’d fallen over a milk jug at the family farm and glass was embedded in […]
THE fourth annual “Buluunggal” festival led by Gumbaynggirr custodian Uncle Bud Marshall will take place at the V-Wall, Nambucca Heads on Saturday, 10 May from 10.30am to 3.30pm. The festival celebrates the arrival of buluunggal, or mullet, in the Nambucca River. “Everyone is invited to come join us again to celebrate the ongoing significance of […]
Beach Operations Management course candidates and educators at Horseshoe Bay, South West Rocks, having completed a simulated search and rescue.
PROFESSIONAL and volunteer lifeguards from the Mid North Coast are undertaking maintenance and upgrading of qualifications in the off-season. At South West Rocks, a class of 16 professional lifeguards have undertaken a new and compulsory two-day Beach Operations and Management (BOM) course under the guidance of the Australian Lifeguard Service’s James Turnham (Mid NSW Lifeguard […]
Housing Matters Chair Kerry Pearse and Bellingen Mayor Cr Steve Allan.
BELLINGEN Shire Council is poised to make history, supporting what could become Australia’s first Community Land Trust (CLT). The CLT would offer shared home ownership for locals on moderate incomes. At its recent meeting, the Council unanimously passed a Mayoral Minute requesting a report on the legal and financial steps needed to transfer a parcel […]
