Now is the time to have a say on the Draft Community Strategic Plan 2035 – Council’s ten-year guiding document which sets out the vision and objectives for the whole of Byron Shire.
The plans for the proposed development at 84 Blindmouth Road are currently on public exhibition and they are seeking a significant number of changes to their DA.
A long-running issue over road access from a farm stay development in Brunswick Heads has been quietly settled in favour of the developer in the NSW Land & Environment Court.
Mandy Nolan’s column (Echo, December 11, 2024) title ‘You want my feedback?’ demands that very thing about one very salient matter. Now, we know that Adam Bandt is the worst leader the Greens have ever had (coming from his Trotskyist...
After reading so many letters and articles referring to atrocities over these months and years, inflicted by man upon men, women, and children, (I don’t watch television – that’s too perverse for me), thousands mercilessly killed, (an extraordinary percentage...
I am alarmed to see children riding ebikes at high speed on busy streets in shorts and T-shirts without helmets. I ask other members of the community to join me in taking responsibility in which parents are failing by donating...
Mandy Nolan has been advertising that the Greens only need 1.8 per cent to win so l decided to give this claim a test run. The best starting point is the distributed 2022 federal election results after elimination of...
It was shocking to learn from Elon’s vanity project X (formerly Twitter) that the ongoing LA fires were the fault of extreme environmentalists, the Democrats and trans people, who apparently now run the LA fire department and have infiltrated the deep state.
Mullumbimby artist Zion Levy Stewart’s latest exhibition, ‘Life is Art’, opens on Valentine’s Day, February 14, at the Tweed Gallery.
Installing CCTV cameras and motion-sensor lights is one of the best ways for locals to protect their homes from the wave of break-ins and car thefts occurring across the Northern Rivers, a community meeting has been told.
Oh the mock humility Dean! At the insufficient awe I showed for the illustriousness of your campaign group. Sorry, I’m actually more interested in people who need to use that Clifford Street exit to get to work, transport kids,...
I have lived in ‘Suffering Park’ for 17.5 years. I drive into Byron town on most days. Sometimes two to three trips a day. I know the traffic conditions and how to time departures to avoid congestion. I have...
Christmas is a time for visiting, and boy, did we visit. Up in humid hills around Nimbin, a few sunsets on a MO near Main Arm, long long lunch/dinner/breakfast at a grass castle at Wilsons Creek, dinner in strata-titled Billen Cliffs, then to a couple of long-established communities a bit south in sandy Clarence country near the coast.
A community cane toad bust event is planned for Waterlily Park, Ocean Shores, today, Thursday, January 16, from 5.30pm till 8.30pm.
Walking along the footpath between Clifford Street and the service station in Suffolk, quite a few times recently, the Black Power Bikes have whizzed past, almost brushing me at a great rate of knots, into the sunset. No warning as...
So Backlash is now promoting any idea that comes across the desk. How did it become Byron Council’s responsibility to investigate the health outcomes of the Covid vaccine? This has been studied to death, including one study of 99...
Byron architect, Christine Vadasz, describes herself as an ‘organic architect’ and has been awarded a Life Fellowship by the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA).
Coorabell Hall marks the start of its 2025 arts program, with Jan Rae’s latest exhibition, ‘Hinterland + Dance’.
Much as I agree with the need to eradicate the red imported fire ant or RIFA (Solenopsis invicta), there is no need to misreport or sensationalise. The baby that died in the day care centre in America (Letters, January...
Will the catastrophic and unprecedented fires in Los Angeles wake up the masses to what our new outlook for the future is, because we see all these famous people in tears and devastated? While we’re getting ready for our...
I am driving on the highway and there’s a giant ute up my butt. It’s making me nervous. I can feel the ‘get out of my way’ energy. I’m a menopausal woman. I don’t respond to coercion.
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.
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Alive In The 70s will bring the unforgettable sounds and distinctive style of the 1970s back to life at a show at Byron Theatre on Saturday, January 18.
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