Last week, government and opposition found themselves singing from the same song sheet in parliament on a range of issues, from the NDIS to ASIO, and big tech to gambling advertising.
The much-loved Darrel Chapman Fun Run will return to Lismore on Sunday 30 August, with runners and walkers set to start the event on Woodlark Street once again.
Creators of the Christmas Wonderland, Graham and Glenys Purnell in Station St Burringbar. The Purnells have been deLIGHTing families for 20 years.
One of the most spectacular festive light displays in the Northern Rivers is back for its 20th year, courtesy of Christmas enthusiasts Graham and Glenys Purnell, in Station Street Burringbar.
Echo photographer Jeff Dawson captured the magic of their Christmas Wonderland in the gallery below. ‘Definitely worth the drive!’ he says.
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar. Definitely worth the drive, so good.
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar.
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar
Christmas Wonderland, Station St Burringbar
Creators of the Christmas Wonderland, Graham and Glenys Purnell in Station St Burringbar. The Purnells have been deLIGHTing families for 20 years.
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Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.
With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.
Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.
Snake catcher Sarah Mailey, from I’ll Catch It Snake Relocations, says she assisted with a potentially deadly bite by an Eastern Brown Snake in Burringbar yesterday.
Who knows how many terrific ideas have wafted and dissolved after long literary lunches? This one didn’t – a shared idea took root, and after a lot of hard work the Northern Rivers Writers Centre, based in Lismore, was born and its first Byron Writers Festival took place in 1997.
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