Many people in the community have asked, how did we miss the plan for traffic lights for the Suffolk intersection?
The red carpet will be rolled out for Flickerfest’s travelling short film festival with the opening night party on February 27 at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall from 7pm.
The establishment of a Community Battery Working Group was unanimously supported by Byron Shire councillors at their Thursday meeting, held last week.
Byron Bay High School’s 2024 graduates, Sophia St Honey Clair and Juniper Stockdale, have been selected for ARTEXPRESS 2025
Residents have contacted The Echo concerned that water utility Rous are now slogging them with a $196 per annum fee for a ‘backflow device management charge’.
With the issues raised at the end of her letter, I’d have to question the ‘no political agenda’ in Noelle Maxwell’s letter (February 12). Feros Care? – solved through the Labor councillor, Asren Pugh and the work of Mark Swivel,...
Congratulations for publishing the December ‘Miss-Information’ front cover; I cannot think of any other paper that would print it, except The Light. The realism is amazing, a little scary. You should make a high-quality print, frame it and hang in your...
It seems to me the only viable, legitimate, and lasting solution to the conflict in Palestine is one state, not two, with human rights and equality under the law for all its citizens. Perhaps Danny Wakil can explain why...
If you’re a Palestinian Muslim resident, whose family’s background is from Israel, I think you’d be safe, and you could be confident that you weren’t included as one of the Israelis who the Banksdown Hospital nurses said they’d kill....
I’d like to thank Catherine Cusack for giving us the correct information about soccer player Sam Kerr’s story. I hadn’t taken much notice of it at all, but I did spend the time and watched the video in the...
A sprawling 33-acre property at 103 Yagers Lane, Skinners Shoot was once home to the largest piggery in the southern hemisphere.
Losing one’s home would perhaps the worst potential event for any individual or family, apart from inevitable death.
It is bewildering to aliens like me to see you humans wandering around destroying your climate as if it doesn’t matter. In particular it annoys me that there are so many cloudy wet days, due to the eight per cent...
I read David Lowe’s article (December 31, 2024) about his cycling to Uluru. In 2024 I cycled from Cairo to Cape Town. There is another local couple who cycled across Africa in 2012. The rail trail has great potential for...
During last night’s big storm, with flashes of fork n’ sheet lightning, crazy thunder and pelting rain, I noticed anxious feelings in my body. The house was literally rattling! Then I remembered a simple tip: deep-breath humming. So I began...
Few regions can boast that their expectant mothers have been given the guidance and care of an independent information service that has been running for over 30 years.
The debate over Byron Council’s decision to install traffic lights at a notorious intersection in Suffolk Park flared again at last week’s Council meeting.
In 2019 and 2020, NSW Forestry Corporation illegally clear-felled 14,440 square metres of mature native hardwood forest. Following a secret deal this illegal destruction kept secret from the public for five years...
When my husband or I fail to finish a task, we affectionately call each other HAJ, an acronym for Half a Job. It’s so disappointing to see this dynamic play out at an organisational level via the Byron Council....
In all the bustle and commotion of life, I discovered only last Sunday the Safe Haven behind Mullum’s Civic Hall as I sauntered by. In the adjacent park, I happened upon one beautiful brother from Tasmania, named Johan, and...
Sometimes these days one knows that one is in the right place at the right time with the right people who are supporting animals facing extinction. This realisation happened to many of us last Thursday at the Bangalow Koala Fundraising...
Could 2025 be any more burdened by less-than-great expectations? By the time this article gets published, an authoritarian populist with a penchant for grand gestures, threats and land grabs will be installed in the White House.
Good on The Echo for stepping up and devoting its front page to the global geopolitical stage. Slightly lacking in imagination however, as your article locked in goose step with the likes of Reuters and BBC in their latest...
Ballina Council’s complicity in the loss of local input and control of more than half of Hampton Park is revealed in the Hampton Park Draft Master Plan. The area under lease to Cherry Street Sports Club, which covers as much...
Also as a long-time local, and contrary to the intimation of a letter writer from last week’s Echo (February 12), I can personally vouch for just a small aspect of the excellent work and actions of our Federal Member...
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