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September 21, 2023

Playground at Clarkes?

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Tweed Council seeks businesses to join it’s rail trail ‘Connect Program’ 

Paying for the maintenance and providing an engaging visitor experience for the Tweed section of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail is a key aspect of Tweed Shire Council’s (TSC) Connect Program. 

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Search to resume for missing swimmer at Tallow Beach

NSW police say that the search for a missing swimmer will resume at 8am at Tallow Beach.

The Adventures of Edward Herring – Part Three

Clutching the address scribbled on the back of an advertising invoice given to him by Shimon, manager of the Mullcogan Times, Edward Herring makes his way to the Assembly meeting.

Tweed Council receive $197,000 for Black Cockatoos and Bush Stonecurlews

Tweed Shire Council accepted a $197,044 grant at their 7 September meeting to assist in the restoration and rehabilitation of the habitats of the endangered Bush Stonecurlew and vulnerable Glossy Black Cockatoo.

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Big Polluters are Getting Off

Offsets don’t work. They have become a licence to pollute. What we actually need is a reduction in carbon emissions, not carbon-emitting industries to greenwash their impact by investing in a solar farm or planting saplings. While it’s nice to know that big polluters are keen to invest in green industry it would be better if they just stopped polluting. You know what’s better than offsets?

Tweed Council refuses Fingal Head tree removal and will defend decision in court

An amendment to the development consent (DA18/0478.02) for 20 Lagoon Road, Fingal Head to remove an extra eight trees...

Jali Land Council accused of land grab

Around 80 residents of Cabbage Tree Island, just south of Wardell, say they want to return home after the 2022 floods, but the Local Aboriginal Land Council, Jali, have other ideas.

Wondering what happened to the money raised to build a playground near Clarkes Beach in the early 2000s?

Did Byron Council kill it or…?

Wally Hueneke, Byron Bay

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2 COMMENTS

  1. It is Clarks Beach ,not Clarkes Beach . Keith Anderson is a longtime resident of Byron Bay and was closely related to the Clarks.

    • Clarkes for several decades now & according to the Geographical Names Board. Whinging to the wrong people. Again.

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