The naivety, or worse still, the desperation for power has clustered the independents Lyon, Clarke, and Swivel in a Faustian deal with the devil within. They are all preference flowing to the candidate who represents a major party that...
While the NSW Electoral Commission have rejected Tom Barnett’s nomination for Byron Shire Mayor in the upcoming Council elections, he has vowed to fight on.
It’s not often I agree with Cr Alan Hunter, but in this instance I certainly do, namely with his comments on the new alignment of mayoral candidates in the coming Council elections. Alan points to their lack of experience and...
I noticed on The Echo’s front page the ‘Bringing the fun back’ story. ‘Oh, no,’ I groaned with my usual sense of woe and foreboding. ‘Which genius came up with that?’ I was unable to find the website for submissions...
Local celebrant and Deathwalker, Zenith Virago will facilitate a Day of the Dead Ceremony at the fig tree in Heritage Park, Mullumbimby, on Sunday.
Byron Youth Theatre plans to bring another thought-provoking, poignant social action theatrical production in December, called Our Home Holiday Town.
Year 11 Mullumbimby High School student, Tiani Hogan, is balancing study and friends while also being Australia’s number one under 18s javelin thrower.
If anyone would like to join with the Byron Environment Centre (BEC) to counter the current war-mongering we’re witnessing, please let us know. We’re creating an arts collective as a celebration of peace, life and love with art and...
Farewell Councillor Basil Cameron, you have served the people of Byron Shire as a true Independent. Thirteen years is a long time to be a councillor, especially with your level of dedication across a broad spectrum, including transport and...
The list of Ballina Council candidates should give you a good laugh. I mean, how many National Party backed candidates can hide behind the ‘genuine Independent’ banner? We have two former National Party preselection candidates, one former Howard Government spin...
Ross Kendall The Fijian Drua was traditionally and formally welcomed to their new base camp for the 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season at Lake Ainsworth Sport and Recreation Centre on 5 November. The Drua squad was welcomed by Bundjalung custodian, Lois...
Reality shows would have us believe that there are cooks of all descriptions and experience, waiting to work in the fine dining industry, but it would appear they only gather in big cities and television studios.
In what is becoming an all-too-familiar affair by those in power and politics, the COP26 Glasgow Climate Conference has confirmed that citizens cannot rely on those who hold our lives and planetary life in their hands to do the...
How’s the election campaigning going for December 4? As a voter of considerable intellect and breathlessly appealing good looks, are you wanting to enter and exit the election booth as quickly as you can?
Apparently a press release by the Hon Ben Franklin MLC dated 25 October 2021 shows two options for the upgrade. One onto the Bruxner Highway to Ballina, the other from Ellis Road onto the Bruxner Highway towards Lismore. Both...
The voting block formed by the ‘gang of four’ Independents should be a clear signal to the electorate that a concerted effort is underway to unseat the Byron Greens. Byron Shire you are under attack by a smokescreen of...
Letters to the editor The Echo loves your letters and is proud to provide a community forum on the issues that matter most to our readers and the people of the NSW north coast. So don't be a passive reader,...
The decision by the Anglican Church to sell St Oswalds Memorial Church in Broken Head has sparked widespread community concern, given that the 99-year-old church was gifted by residents as a dedicated memorial to three local men killed in WWI.
I think about those little girls. But mainly I think about their parents and family. The people in the shadowland. I want to tell them everything will be okay, but I don’t know that. I don’t really even know them. This is a small community. When tragedy strikes, and the wave consumes one of us, the ripples hit the rest.
Before you vote at next month’s Council elections on December 4, it could be worth considering what the current lot did with your dollars.
Ross Kendall Local surfers were among the winners in all four age divisions of the Surfer Groms Competition held at Coffs Harbour earlier this month. Ocea Curtis and Mia Baker from Lennox Head finished third and fourth in the U/14 girls. Maz...
Alison Drover There are regular paw prints along The Pass, Wategos, Whites and Brunswick Heads beaches of a morning. Recently a local lady was bailed up and bitten by a dog in the Border Ranges National Park. So how can...
Who knew that just west of the highway there is a veritable wonderland of exotic and rare fruit trees. John Picone was raised on a family farm in Sicily before moving to Australia in 1956. After a life in Sydney...
There’s a reason why the eggs from Bangalow Eggs taste so good. Farmer Tom Bridge says it comes down to their deep-litter mulch system. ‘We use a deep-litter system, which is where we supply the paddocks that the chickens roam...
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