Sher Roberts, South Golden Beach In the past two months I have issued the Byron Shire Council (BSC) three times with a Question on Notice (QON). Last week, I submitted a QON to Council with ample time and was given a...
Michele Grant, Ocean Shores What happens to people who reject the pursuit of wealth as the primary focus of adult life? Does anyone have a choice? Are we free or able to exist outside the mainstream or must we sell our...
Boyd Kellner, Newrybar Helena Norberg Hodge’s regurgitation of the merits and otherwise of her beloved ‘localisation’ reveals a paucity of real-world political and social economic knowledge, in her rebuttal of my Echo letter (16 June). More disturbingly is the citation of Via...
Trude Helm, Myocum Many years down the track and still we fight on… on so many levels. Looking back at what now seem idyllic, positive times, I recall a local newspaper started by a Buddhist woman back in the ’90s... a ‘Good...
David Gilet, Byron Bay It is true that for a small country like Norway distance and recharging of vehicles is not an issue as it is in Australia. Some time ago I saw on television a car design that I think could...
Iris Kojeve, Main Arm I have a dream. I dream of a community where individuals hold the power of change. Where people are engaged with each other and the world around them. Where politics is within each individual. I have a dream...
Public funds have been allocated for projects in Brunswick Heads, earmarked in the recent NSW Budget.
A DA to expand and change the use of the former Wicked Weasel warehouse and surrounding land south of Byron’s CBD is on public exhibition at Council’s website.
Tom Tabart, Victoria When I saw that mayoral aspirant Mark Swivel was hosting a post-Buck$ AVO seminar I was struck by what appeared to be political opportunism. Noting a current AVO plaintiff was the keynote speaker did nothing to dispel this...
A report that examined the loss of ‘woody vegetation’ across NSW in 2019 was released by Department of Planning, Industry & Environment last week.
Luke Baggs, South Golden Beach Dog controls – is there any chance Byron Council could start properly funding and enforcing animal control across the Shire? I am out in the community every day and the last time I saw one...
Wil Ash, Mullumbimby In response to Dean’s letter re the right to choice in the vaccine matter, he said exactly what I have been thinking but wouldn’t have put it as well as Dean did. I am amazed at how pro-vaccine The...
Erosion in Byron Bay appears out of control and may have the potential to threaten the welfare of the town.
A proposal to build 14 townhouses and eight swimming pools on constrained land at 103 Paterson Street, Byron Bay, has been refused.
Monument to the Wet Season by Hannah Massey was the winner of the Ingenuity Maquette Exhibition, held last weekend at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club.
Michael McDonald, Bairnsdale VIC I sympathise with Ballina councillor Ben Smith’s outburst at the NSW government, as repᵒrted by David Lowe in last week’s Echo. Cr Smith described the relationship between councils and the government as ‘abusive’, with councils expected...
Mick Malloy, Suffolk Park When the vaccine passport kicks in I hope all you anti-vaxxers really love Mullum.
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Treat yourself to some new reads this winter! Get your bedside stack sorted with these six books by authors coming to Byron Writers Festival 6–8 August.
There's still lots of amazing things going on in the Shire.
The two challenges for me as a vegan are my B12 and iron levels. I’ll save the B12 conversation for another time and talk about iron. There are two types of iron – haem and non-haem; the latter is iron not found in animal tissue and is found in many plant foods.
Kyle Maxwell is a real dyed-in-the-sarong local – he went to both Byron Public and High Schools, and he managed The Northern before the amazing Wok This Way.
Fair citizens of the Byron Shire… there is good news afoot. And it’s tasty!
There are not many things more romantic than meeting your life partner in the ‘city of love’ and that’s exactly what happened for husband-and-wife team Anna Mortimer and Aymeric Albores when they met in Paris, where Anna trained and worked as a chef and Aymeric was managing restaurants.
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