Looking through the images and bios of the brave locals raising their hands to serve on the next term of Council brings up a mix of emotions.
If you’ve noticed people in your town or suburb jogging or exercise-walking with particular purpose this week, it could be because they’re taking part in The Long Run.
Inspired by early settlers who shared old maps and books, former Byron Shire councillor, Patrick Morrisey PhD, has chronicled the history of Byron’s hinterland with a book he says is ‘within the grand sweep of colonial history’.
Greens candidate for the federal seat of Richmond, Mandy Nolan, says her party ‘will fight for a commitment of $1 million in annual funding for Byron Bay homelessness support service Fletcher Street Cottage if elected at the upcoming federal election’.
Public submissions have been extended until September 10 around a large development slated for Wategos.
Worried about the cost of living? Join the reuse revolution on Saturday, September 21 as we welcome the North Coast’s largest day of garage sales – Second Hand Saturday!
After an unseasonably wet winter, the grass is growing like the clappers and the undergrowth isn’t far behind. It’s creating a large fuel load that significantly increases the risk of local fires as things dry out.
I thought people might be interested in this experience and maybe have some input. Last Tuesday I was paddling from the east towards Julian Rocks and a whale came straight for me. I stopped paddling and it went under me...
Bravo David Morris on underlining the furphy of Byron Bay having a ‘unique culture’. What a sham of a claim – used to beguile, and believed by the credulous. When used as a statement of fact it does my...
The Byron Bay Chamber of Commerce will host a free ‘meet the candidates’ event, specifically aimed at Byron businesses, on Monday, September 9, from 4.30pm to 5.30pm at the Byron Community Centre
It’s the great hope – humans will make the leap from using dirty polluting fossil fuels to being on board the Star Trek Enterprise.
NORPA is taking audiences on an adventure outside the theatre once again, staging its original work Wildskin in a warehouse space at Lismore Showgrounds.
Just a few weeks ago, the defibrillator in the Mullumbimby Industrial Estate was used to save a man’s life.
As a part-time resident I read again, in recent issues of The Echo, that all councillors/candidates questioned were in favour of the rail trail through the Byron Shire. It has been years of positive words, yet no evident action. So...
With any election, political hopefuls enter the race as insiders (already in the ‘political tent’ and seeking re-election), or being outsiders, meaning they generally are not experienced or intimately knowledgeable with how government works (legislation, policy and regulations for...
The most precious amenity in our shire is our beaches. But do we want the to turn into Bali beaches – a commercial free-for-all on our beaches packed with massages, hair braiding, food, yoga – anything you want?
Congratulations to Byron’s chess enthusiasts, Peter Hanna, Byron Shire Councillor Cate Coorey, and the Byron Shire Councillors, on the decision to establish a permanent location for ‘chess by the sea’. This initiative is a wonderful opportunity for both locals...
Is it reasonable to suggest that speed bumps be introduced in sections of road crossed by koalas? There could be brightly coloured steel tube speed bumps, across the surface of the road, locked down on concrete blocks at the...
I feel for Graham Leech (Letters, August 21) who suffers from weeds spread by flood waters to properties at Federal. He observes that no one is doing anything about the very healthy-looking weeds at Wilsons Creek, completely understandable. Unfortunately,...
Years ago, while studying at Southern Cross University, I worked several hospitality jobs. Though I was always paid minimum wage, tips made the effort worthwhile. Recently, some friends in the industry shared their frustration with Byron Bay employers who pocket...
Not counting trans and intersex people, as they specifically identify, in the Census is a form of bureaucratic erasure. For an exercise that is chiefly about creating a data-driven snapshot of who we are and how we are changing, not including the full spectrum of the LBGTQI+ community is both insulting AND unscientific. So that makes the decision to knowingly not include specific groups of people as political – quite frankly it feels like an act of erasure.
The letters deadline for The Echo is noon Friday. Letters longer than 200 words may be cut. The publication of letters is at the discretion of the letters editor.
Janine Owen Koorey Over the weekend, two out of three of our AFL junior competitive teams (U/13 girls and U/15 boys) won the grand final, making them premiers of their competitions. We play in the SEQ AFL comp against much bigger...
When Brian Epstein (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) set foot in the Cavern Club in November 1961 to watch The Beatles perform, he saw something no one else could – a glimmer of gold. Sharply dressed and well-spoken, Brian was hardly the most obvious radical – but being Jewish, closeted and having grown up as an outsider who had failed at pretty much everything, he was a 26 year old with something to prove and he wanted to tear up the rulebook.
Local duo Hawkes and Webster will play a live and soulful Saturday session at Founde, the new pre-loved fashion event held at the A&I Hall in Bangalow, which will come alive with pre-loved and bohemian fashion finds, live music, a cosy children’s play place and the warmth of freshly brewed chai.
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