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Ewingsdale Rd pedestrian crossing back on the agenda

The developers behind the massive West Byron housing project are back for round two in their bid to install a pedestrian crossing on Ewingsdale Road, just weeks after councillors rejected a traffic-light version of the proposal.

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Check your rates

Check your Council rates notice. If you are the 44 per cent part of the community charged a ‘Minimum...

Given up the ghost

We are informed that Byron Shire Council (BSC) has, in a sense, ‘given up the ghost’.  It has run...

We don’t just need more housing: we need it where it’s needed most

With news that the last of Byron Shire’s pod villages will be closed by the end of the year, both residents and the wider community are asking: where will they go in a region where vacancy rates are less than 0.5 per cent?

Cinema : Three screen divas in nun’s habits

What could possibly go wrong? Judy Davis as Sister Agnes, Miriam Margolyes as Sister Luke and Jacki Weaver as Sister Mary Clare are tossed into the rugged landscapes of 1970s New Zealand in Holy Days.

Musical visionaries

Sydney is a funny place. When recently at Warringah Mall, I was randomly asked to take part in a...

Save Byron’s farmland

Doug Foskey (Letters,26 August) asks why the state government is taxing farmers for ‘services’ he never sees. Indeed, why? The...

The reasons given to justify the war in Iran are quite illogical and hence entirely false: in fact, it’s simply a war for resources. We need those resources.

One Nation spokesman, Barnaby Joyce says: ‘we’re going to be out of milk, eggs, meat, and vegetables.’

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve salt caverns have now reached the level, at which their walls and ceilings will begin to collapse and soon we’ll reach the level where they’re pumping, sand, brine and a tar-like sludge from the bottom.

My last unpublished letters mentioned America’s AI integration into nuclear warfare control and also mentioned the film Mad Max, as a possible guide to our future, if these wars continue,and it is very likely these wars will continue. We may see record fuel prices before Christmas: eventual fuel rationing, is now a certainty.

Peter Olson, Goonengerry

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