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April 25, 2024

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Appeal to locate missing man – Tweed Heads

Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from Tweed Heads West.

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Anzac Day memorials 2024

From the early hours of this morning people gathered to acknowledge the sacrifice of lives, families and communities have made in the name of war and keeping peace. Across the Northern Rivers events will continue today as we acknowledge the cost of war.

Can Council’s overturn their decisions?

NSW Labor planning minister, Paul Scully, when asked about the Wallum estate by local MP Tamara Smith (Greens)  in...

Celebrating Tweed Museum’s 20th anniversary with all and everything

A stunning new exhibition has opened to celebrate the Tweed Regional Museum's 20th anniversary – Omnia: all and everything.

It’s MardiGrass!

This year is Nimbins 32nd annual MardiGrass and you’d reckon by now ‘weed’ be left alone. The same helicopter raids, the disgusting, and completely unfair, saliva testing of drivers, and we’re still not allowed to grow our own plants. We can all access legal buds via a doctor, most of it imported from Canada, but we can’t grow our own. There’s something very wrong there.

Flood insurance inquiry’s North Coast hearings 

A public hearing into insurers’ responses to the 2022 flood was held in Lismore last Thursday, with one local insurance brokerage business owner describing the compact that exists between insurers and society as ‘broken’. 

2022 flood data quietly made public  

The long-awaited state government analysis of the 2022 flood in the shire’s north is now available on the SES website.

As the co-ordinator for the last few years for the North Sports Fields Groups, I want to congratulate everyone on a fabulous job of achieving a positive sports-field outcome for the north of the shire. It is now up to the community to help council staff and councillors move this project along and get the things that are required. It has been a great pleasure to have all of the north of the shire working together as one. We have proven that working together we can achieve anything.

It has been an honour to have met and spoken to all the dedicated people over the years, working through the many details needed to achieve this great outcome. I will not be continuing as co-ordinator but wish all the sports enthusiasts well on the next steps: encouraging Council to move quickly, getting this space up and running with the restrictions placed on it, etc.

Many wonderful people have offered their services free and have the qualifications to get this project done. Good luck and, again, heartfelt congratulations.

Kathy Norley, President, South Golden Beach Community Association


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  1. Once again. Well done Kathy and all the others who steered this issue through a course of best community outcome as opposed to cheap political point scoring with zero positive outcome.

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