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Housing not industrial precinct say Lismore locals

Locals from Goonellabah and Lindendale have called out the proposed Goonellabah industrial precinct at 1055A Bruxner Hwy and 245 Oliver Ave as being the wrong use of the site. 

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Ignite your creativity at Mullum Laneways Festival

This year’s Mullum Laneways Festival, to be held on May 4 and 5, promises to be a feast for the senses, set to captivate visitors of all ages. On Sunday, May 5 everyone is encouraged to immerse themselves in the heart of the Festival, as Burringbar Street is transformed into a vibrant tapestry of music, dance, art, and more.This is a free event, funded by local sponsorship and a gala fundraising event on Saturday, May 4.

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.

Some spending cannot be questioned

The euphemisms were flying when Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles announced last week that an extra $50 billion would be spent on our military over the next decade, and that $72.8 billion of already announced spending would be redirected.

Blockades continue as councillors wave next Wallum certificate through

A second subdivision works certificate for the Wallum estate was signed off by a majority of councillors last week, who again argued that they have no legal standing to further impede an approved development.

Anzac Day events in the Northern Rivers

Around Australia people will come together this Thursday to pay their respects and remember those who have served, and continue to serve, the nation during times of conflict. Listed are details for Tweed, Ballina, Lismore, Byron, Kyogle, and Richmond Valley Council areas.

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.

Brunswick Heads Photography Competition

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This year the theme for the Brunswick Heads Simple Pleasures Photo Competition was:

Brunswick Heads, wish you were here!

The finalists this year were Rosabella Whiteford, Akasha Hughes, Paola Caruana, Bianca Joy Cam, Shani Miller, Jules Hunt, Storm Gale, Jose-Antonio Lopez Vieira, Rosie Kew, Michelle Begg, Bailey Pheloung Rodgers, Brodee Emery, Eddie Rigney and Kyle Flaxton.

The winners are:

Overall winner – Brunswick Bridge – José-Antonio Lopez Vieira

Adult – Lonely Moon and Venus – Rosie Kew

Youth – Fishermans Paradise – Storm Gale

Child – Locals Bridge – Brodee Emery

Brunswick Heads Public School – Akasha Hughes

Instagram – texta_artist Maria Wilson

Mayor’s Choice – Crab – Kyle Flaxten

People’s Choice – Locals Bridge – Brodee Emery.

See the Brunswick Heads Simple Pleasures website for more details.

2014 finalist photographs

 

All photos are now on exhibition until 22 September, 2014. This year’s event includde The Echo People’s Choice Awards, a Twilight Promenade and an ‘all-town exhibition’. Below are the 2013 finalists.

Photographs from 2013

A fond farewell to Mungo’s crosswords

This week we sadly publish the last of Mungo MacCallum’s puzzles. Before he died in 2020 Mungo compiled a large archive of crosswords for The Echo.

Tugun tunnel work at Tweed Heads – road diversion

Motorists are advised of changed overnight traffic conditions from Sunday on the Pacific Motorway, Tweed Heads.

Driver charged following Coffs Harbour fatal crash

A driver has been charged following a fatal crash in the Coffs Harbour area yesterday.

Geologist warns groundwater resource is ‘shrinking’

A new book about Australian groundwater, soil and water has been published by geologist Philip John Brown.