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2020 Vision with Mandy Nolan & Austen Tayshus Monday, 6 Jan – Byron Services Club | Wednesday, 8 Jan – The Regent Theatre, Murwillumbah | Thursday, 9 Jan – Evans Head RSL | Friday, 10 Jan – The Saraton Theatre, Grafton | Sunday, 12...
Last Thursday 29 per cent of Brits voted Conservative, 22 per cent Labour, 8 per cent Liberal-Democrats, 2.6 per cent Scottish National, 1.8 per cent Greens, and 1.3 Brexit – and 33 per cent of didn’t vote for anyone.
Mike Love and The Full Circle Mullumbimby Civic Hall | Friday, 28 December | 7pm | $20–35 With more than 20 million hits on YouTube for his track Permanent Holiday Hawaii’s renowned reggae artist, Mike Love, returns with his full 6...
A 90-year-old Ballina woman, who does not qualify for either Victoria’s or the new Western Australian Voluntary Assisted Dying laws, left for Switzerland to fulfil her wish to die with dignity and on her own terms.
Further to last week’s report on the Byron bypass budget, Council’s Director Infrastructure Services Phil Holloway has provided further answers to questions.
Byron Council’s blueprint for the future of Mullumbimby, including a significant increase in housing, is a step closer to becoming reality, after councillors unanimously endorsed the Mullumbimby Masterplan last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qn_spdM5Zg With much anticipation, the Star Wars saga is sadly reaching its inevitable end. Rise of Skywalker is hitting cinemas on 19 December with tickets to midnight screenings booked out worldwide. After mixed responses to the last film, JJ Abrams...
2020 Vision NYD Byron Bay Billinudgel Hotel | Wednesday, 1 Jan | 1pm–11pm | $38 POB’S an old club-head who’s been hanging out behind the decks for over two decades and he still totally loves it… he gets his kicks dancing...
Live Music in the Byron Shire for the week beginning 18 December, 2019
The Brunswick Heads Customer Service Awards were held on Tuesday night at the Hotel Brunswick.
We don’t value creativity. Our school system has generally always favoured the STEM streams. It loves uniformity. It loves data that can be neatly measured. It loves absolutes. There are no absolutes in the creative process... We need to plant more seeds. You never know what will grow. Maybe even a bread tree.
Letters to the editor We love to receive letters, but not every letter will be published; the publication of letters is at the discretion of the online and print letters editors. The deadline for the Byron Echo newspaper is noon Friday and letters longer...
Mark Barry, Craig Johnson, Mark Brown and Paul Clark took the honours at the Byron Bay Bowling Club’s Fours Championship last week. It was a tight game with only one shot in it with four ends to play. The final result was 21-15.
Harry Webber is a qualified freedive instructor who is hoping to promote the sport as well as boost safety skills with his regular how-to sessions held at Mullumbimby pool.
Some of our local junior surfers had the honour of representing NSW at the Australian Junior Surfing Titles held in solid surf at Margaret River Main Break Western Australia.
The Byron Breakers have kept their position at the top of the ladder of the North Coast Interclub Triathlon Series after some stunning victories at round two, held at Yamba the weekend before last.
If you’ve ever dreamed of taking a selfie at the Antarctic Pole of Inaccessibility, you’ll know it’s a big dream. It is far more remote and difficult to reach than the geographic South Pole, because it is the point...
By Vivienne Pearson Even though it’s his first time featuring in the hallowed pages of The Echo, it all feels surprisingly familiar to Lenny Ransome. His mother, Carol, was a journalist for the paper back in the day. ‘The Echo...
By S Haslam With climate change causing our country to become drier, China refusing to accept our ‘recycling’ and customers looking for more ‘sustainable’ products, the role of Sustainability Officer in a business is an important one. Not only are...
And so ScoMo’s annus miraculous staggers to an end, with the promise that the next one will be the year of delivery, the one that produces the outcomes which will make all the dithering, procrastination and avoidance of issues all worthwhile.
Culture in the Byron Shire for the Week Beginning 19 December, 2019
