2024 has been a significant year for the Byron Bay Men’s Shed. The organisation has grown from its early days of enthusiastic planning into a more substantial and structured community group, dedicated to fostering connection and purpose among local men.
There’s a new covered space within the expansive Mullum Community Gardens.
The latest projected population and housing density figures for four of Byron Shire’s largest villages have been released, with statistics painting a picture of growth patterns over the next decade.
Santos Organics is proud to announce the 2024 recipients of their Grow the Growers project.
The man was in his pyjamas when he went out to the bin one night, slipped on a banana peel and hit his head, hard.
The ridiculous thrust of a two-week decision by the Byron Shire Council for acceptance of the government grant to install traffic lights at the corner of Clifford Street and Broken Head Road is an inferior answer to a problem...
Did you spend your time and energy last weekend at the beautiful ‘Prayers for Peace’ concert at Mullum Civic Hall or did you spend it at the disgusting hate-fuelled anti-Israel gathering in Byron near the Rails? Prayers for Peace was...
Once again, Northern Rivers Friends of Palestine is being smeared with false claims. The alleged ‘boycott lists’ circulating in the Murdoch press are a complete fabrication. We have consistently told our members not to boycott local Israeli businesses and...
The peak body representing NSW councils says the latest housing reforms by the NSW government will increase the powers of developers while reducing the ability of councils to have a say on local planning matters.
After many months of being under wraps – with what seemed like endless renovations – the new Carsburgs petrol station has been revealed at the entrance to Mullumbimby.
To get a sense of what happened in the past 12 months, I trawled through The Echo’s 2024 editions.
Danny Wakil, (Letters December 10, 2024) if the circumstances weren’t so tragic I could hardly stop myself from laughing at your accusations of bias levelled at David Gilet. What are the actual numbers? According to figures from the UN...
It came with the Herald one day last December My bonus brand-new Michael Leunig calendar One image each month from that great illustrator The people’s poet our favourite commentator on the human condition He’s penned so many amusing editions – this fine-feathered philosopher Of...
I have observed, as have others, that every holiday period and Christmas Byron Council puts six or more staff on for the majority of the day in Byron to assist people safely crossing the road at two spots. This must...
A local teenage surfer has prevented a potential tragedy at South Golden Beach by rescuing two people from a treacherous rip.
Silver medal Paralympian, and doctor, Marty Mayberry, passed away at his home in Brisbane on December 18, 2024.
Happy new year’s revolution! Another orbit of our beautiful Earth home around our life-giving Sun.
For sure, the Bangalow Lions organisers have a job to do and meant well to conclude the Christmas event with fireworks, but it’s a tradition from an era that should have been long gone by now. Not everyone is happy...
I am deeply saddened by the grotesque defacement of Byron town with graffiti displaying the Nazi swastika symbol. I am even more devastated by the lack of action by anyone in a position of authority (police, Byron Shire Council) to...
Wishing to express grateful thanks for those Byron Shire Council workers and other community workers who worked on Christmas Day and were not able to be with family. Thank you. Rod Murray, Ocean Shores
Dear Mr Krieg, We must say we were a little more than gobsmacked by the suggestion that you want to remove the CSG signs around Lismore. Not only is that a clear insult and an affront to all those...
One of the Shire’s biggest tourist attractions is set to get a significant upgrade, with the addition of a shared pedestrian and cycleway up to the Byron Lighthouse.
Each year, the Australian Rural Doctors network recognises rural GPs who have achieved 35 plus years of service to remote, rural and regional communities in NSW.
What a wolf in sheep’s clothing was honey-voiced Councillor Krieg at the Lismore Council meeting on December 19, leading his cohort of fake Independents. Mouthing payment of respect for the Indigenous elders, and calling for respect in the Council...
I would agree with Simon Alderton of Ballina that wearing a helmet is an individual choice, except for the fact that everybody pays financially, and family and friends pay in other ways, if someone sustains a major head injury....
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