20.4 C
Byron Shire
April 23, 2021
Letters

Life’s web

By The Echo
1

Latest News

Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Tweed Council to write to government for more housing support

With a shortage of affordable housing in most areas of the Far North Coast, it is not surprising that Tweed is also feeling the pinch and Council has declared a housing emergency in the area owing to a lack of availability and affordability.
Read more

Other News

LettersThe Echo - 0

Paramedic pay

Sue McLeod, Myocum  I was saddened by the plight of our paramedics and their union’s frustrated attempts to seek a pay...
Read more
Byron EchoThe Echo - 0

Entertainment in the Byron Shire for the week beginning 21 April, 2021

Check out entertainment listings for the week, with music, dance, cinema and all sorts events happening in and around the Byron Shire
Read more
Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Tweed Council to write to government for more housing support

With a shortage of affordable housing in most areas of the Far North Coast, it is not surprising that Tweed is also feeling the pinch and Council has declared a housing emergency in the area owing to a lack of availability and affordability.
Read more
Byron EchoEcho - 0

Yamba restaurants

I’m often asked about Yamba, one of our favourite holiday spots over the last 20 years. With a great range of beaches, walks, tennis courts, skate parks and accommodation etc it’s been great for the kids growing up, and they still love it. Plus, it’s now only 90 minutes’ drive from Mullumbimby.
Read more
Byron EchoThe Echo - 0

Your Local Club Academy Games

The North Coast Academy of Sport prepared its largest squad ever to compete at the 2021 Your Local Club Academy Games, held in the Hunter region last weekend.
Read more
Local NewsPaul Bibby - 11

Fresh faces for Council elections

A very distinct, black flat-cap has just been thrown into the ring for the upcoming Byron Council elections, pegged for September 4.
Read more

Sapoty Brook, Mullumbimby

What makes me laugh is that a presidentially halted project, that is later presidentially supported, receives government funding recommended by a senior virologist for experimentation in the lab of a trade war opponent, where an ethics committee secretly supports the in vivo testing of infectiousness of viruses with enhancement of spike receptor-binding proteins, via a little genetic cut and paste, which becomes a global trial that the most scientifically advanced country copes with the least, and the senior virologist has become respected as the infallible saviour.

Previous articleTwo new COVID-19 cases at Byron Central Hospital
Next articleLooking deeper into recycled water

Support The Echo

Keeping the community together and the community voice loud and clear is what The Echo is about. More than ever we need your help to keep this voice alive and thriving in the community.

Like all businesses we are struggling to keep food on the table of all our local and hard working journalists, artists, sales, delivery and drudges who keep the news coming out to you both in the newspaper and online. If you can spare a few dollars a week – or maybe more – we would appreciate all the support you are able to give to keep the voice of independent, local journalism alive.

1 COMMENT

  1. I suspect, close associates may need to take practical steps regarding mental health status and associated concerns? Based upon what we are reading this concern is real and transparent, no?

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Local News

Simon Richardson steps down as Byron Shire Mayor

The Echo - 9
In an eventful day for Byron Shire Council, pot-stirrer Fast Buck$ was ejected from the council chambers yesterday and later Cr Simon Richardson announced that he will be stepping down as mayor from the end of next week.
Read more
Local News

Pay parking for Lennox Head?

David Lowe - 0
Yesterday's Ballina Shire Council meeting saw councillors raise the spectre of paid parking at Lennox Head, and possibly elsewhere in the shire.
Read more
Local News

They will not be forgotten…

The Echo - 0
In the wake of the pandemic restrictions, ANZAC Day will be commemorated in a COVID safe fashion and some areas will ask residents to...
Read more
Local News

East Ballina Lions desperately needs new members

The Echo - 0
East Ballina Lions Club has given over thirty years of service to numerous community programs and initiatives, but if it doesn't get more members soon, it will have to close.
Read more
The Echo is made possible by the support of all of our advertisers.

FEATURED STORIES

Fast Buck$ ejected from Byron Council meeting

Local News Aslan Shand - 6
During this morning's Byron Shire Council meeting a dispute between the Mayor Simon Richardson and local activist and agitator Fast Buck$ over the pronunciation of Cr Sarah Ndiaye's name led to the meeting being suspended.
Read more

Simon Richardson steps down as Byron Shire Mayor

Local News The Echo - 9
In an eventful day for Byron Shire Council, pot-stirrer Fast Buck$ was ejected from the council chambers yesterday and later Cr Simon Richardson announced that he will be stepping down as mayor from the end of next week.
Read more

They will not be forgotten…

Local News The Echo - 0
In the wake of the pandemic restrictions, ANZAC Day will be commemorated in a COVID safe fashion and some areas will ask residents to...
Read more

Pay parking for Lennox Head?

Local News David Lowe - 0
Yesterday's Ballina Shire Council meeting saw councillors raise the spectre of paid parking at Lennox Head, and possibly elsewhere in the shire.
Read more

POPULAR POSTS

Kingscliff’s amenity or company profit?

Local News The Echo - 7
Kingscliff property developer Gales Holgins is seeking to increase truck movements by bringing in fill from the M1 road works rather than using fill from the development site. But Kingscliff Ratepayers and Progress Association say that the impact on residents and business is too high a cost to pay.
Read more

Local concert series organiser hit with $5,000 fine

Local News Paul Bibby - 9
When local musician Lisa Hunt arrived for a meeting with police last Thursday she was hoping for a somewhat friendlier reception than she had received on the last occasion.
Read more

Byron Shire Mayor, staff mute over Council court loss

Byron Echo Hans Lovejoy - 0
Byron Mayor, Simon Richardson (Greens), is again remaining mute over questions around Council’s court loss, this time over a fencing dispute in Suffolk Park.
Read more

Car mania clogs Mullumbimby

Byron Echo The Echo - 13
It was a fatal error – driving half a kilometre into Mullumbimby to pick up a carton of milk. My partner drove while I conducted reconnaissance for that elusive parking spot. 
Read more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

Give Website Feedback

FOLLOW US