Our contemporary Christmas has evolved from northern hemisphere seasonal celebrations, including the pagan harvest festivals and winter solstice celebrations encrusted with Christianity.
Marine Rescue NSW volunteers across the state say they were busy during November, with the service expecting demand to increase over the holiday season.
Recipients of the 2024-2025 Mayoral Fund have been announced, valued at $18,142. Mayor Sarah Ndiaye said she was ‘overwhelmed by the response to a call-out for applications for this year’s fund’.
The recent cuts to Southern Cross University (SCU)’s undergraduate programs in art and design, contemporary music, and digital media, from 2025 have prompted north coast councils to call on the university to reconsider, given the importance of the sector to the Northern Rivers.
Wear your bicycle helmet! It is the law and it is for your safety. I notice that the lax enforcement of the NSW road rules, dominant in Byron, has now spread to Ballina. If you are caught riding without a helmet...
Reading your article about the recent fundraising lunch for men’s mental health (Echo, November 13), one statement stood out to me: ‘By the time it’s physical, it’s very hard to treat’. It’s a sobering thought, but I’d like to...
My talk to Byron Shire Council last week about the invisible ageing people in our shire was introducing a proposal which I called ‘The Ministry of Ageing’, a community-led initiative to provide our old people with a platform to...
Say ‘no’ to traffic lights on Broken Head Road at Suffolk Park. I can’t believe that the Byron Shire Council (BSC) seriously thinks that installing traffic lights on Broken Head Road at Suffolk Park is a good idea and that...
A new cohort of community members who advise Council around planning and policy matters were appointed to Council’s advisory committees at last week’s meeting.
Newrybar-based restaurant and deli Harvest has closed its doors, with owners saying it was owing to rising operational costs, compliance pressures and an uncertain tenure.
Look out, you latte-sipping do-goody Greens, there is a movement preparing war against your party for the upcoming federal election.
We have lost contact with Pam Fowler, a friend we made back in 1982. The last known address we had for her was 643 Booyong Road, Booyong, 2480. Our last letter to her was returned to us in Guernsey,...
Having just seen a previous copy of The Echo we were very interested in Paul Jones’ letter criticising the new concrete path up to the lighthouse from Wategos. We’re sure he’s right –though we haven’t seen the path yet,...
A $4.3 million industrial development will be built on a sensitive greenfield site next to the Harvest housing estate in West Byron after receiving approval from Byron Shire councillors.
It’s that time of the year again. Friday Hut Road from The Buttery has been renamed Santa Claus Lane and dozens of colourful Santas, gnomes and sleighs – one pulled by six white kangaroos – have appeared by the roadside.
This Christmas, are you thinking about getting someone you love a friend they can love?
I don’t know if Backlash coined the nickname P Duddy (Echo, December 11) for the leader of the opposition – another appropriate name for him – but gee I like it! Rose Fox, Byron Bay
Further to the recently published letter in The Echo regarding the virtually invisible and highly perilous lip at the end of the zebra crossing between Fundies and the Commonwealth Bank: today I witnessed the aftermath of a shocking accident...
A photographic exhibition presenting the stunning, unique beauty of the ‘Wallum’ landscape will be held at the Brunswick Picture House on Thursday December 19.
The sprawling 4,078 square metre site at 2 Brownell Drive, Wategos Beach, is arguably the most beautiful vacant coastal lot in the Byron Shire.
The position of a senior biodiversity officer is likely to return to Byron Shire Council, after councillors unanimously voted at their Thursday meeting to hold a confidential ‘workshop’ meeting with executive staff to explore options.
I’m writing to raise awareness about changes to Byron Hospital’s weekly new parent group – a service that has been a lifeline for so many in our community. Run by the wonderful Brooke and Helen, this group offers more...
The elephant in the room for the 57 Station St development application (DA), site suitability, is censored from public feedback on the DA by the applicant company, Landcom. All such comments are not published on their online site, and...
It’s nine days to Xmas. I don’t know why, but that makes me feel immediately anxious. It’s exactly the same feeling as having an assignment due but you haven’t even started yet. I only put the Xmas tree up yesterday. I think you’re supposed to get that sorted by the first of December. You don’t have to have a tree, but I’m so conditioned I can’t not erect some sort of tacky tinsel and flashing lights installation.
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