The Byron Bay International Film Festival (BBFF) will run from 17 to 26 October, featuring documentaries that explore humanity’s deep connection to the natural world and the urgency of climate change.
Local single-parent families will be able to access the Shire’s public swimming pools at a reduced cost after Byron Council addressed a long-standing inequity in its pricing structure for the facilities.
We are a bit disparate around Durrumbul, and not really Main Arm, certainly not West Mullumbimby. We have an opportunity this year to take control of our only public venue, the fabulous Durrumbul Hall. The mud brick building in Mud...
I’m calling on current software experts to establish a corner of the web that puts truth at its centre. The ability to separate truth from scams has been completely shattered now. So now we need a ‘truth net’ that anyone...
Talk about making protests irrelevant – Palestinian protesters campaigned outside a state government member’s office, when they should be around at the office of the federal member, Kevin Hogan, counteracting his lies about Gaza. Rod Conder, Alstonville
Phillip Mackenzie’s piece on ‘The efforts to return rail service’ (Echo, September 24) includes multiple uses of the words ‘could’, ‘may’, ‘feasible’, and ‘almost’. And therein lies the problem. These words conjure up a fuzzy dream of having some form...
We supposedly live in a rich and affluent region called the Byron Shire. If you are visiting from outside the region, the first thing you might notice is a loud bang coming from your car’s suspension. With the ongoing poor road...
Growing up, my Kiwi mum would, inexplicably, refer to any traffic delay as a Texas tit tangle. Well, Mullum is currently in line for the biggest TTT ever. As a resident and a business owner, I’d be okay if delays...
In early 2022, before the flood of February 28, I attended an initial meeting between Landcom and Byron Shire Council regarding a proposed development at 57 Station Street. I was invited to this meeting because I am a landowner within...
I sat through Thursday’s Council meeting when the DA for 57 Station St was ‘discussed’. In a break, Mayor Ndiaye started up a conversation with me about it. Good on her for doing that. She made clear that she was...
What an absolutely shameful display it was in public access at last week’s Council meeting. While trying to listen to the pleas of a young local teacher, for Council to continue to support the affordable housing project on Station Street...
At last week’s Byron Shire Council (BSC) meeting, I decided to stay to hear the ‘debate’ and ‘discussion’ of our councillors following the presentation of three of our local community members about the poorly designed 57 Station Street development...
Regarding the front page headline in last week’s edition of The Echo – I am aware that DV is a highly emotional subject, but that should not deter us to stick to the basic rules (of law). That means...
Byron Youth Theatre (BYT) will premiere its powerful new original production, Grow Up!, at The Drill Hall Theatre, Mullumbimby this October.
Last Saturday Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner School celebrated their annual Spring Fair capturing the heart and spirit of the school community.
While Trump was ranting at the UN General Assembly last week, telling countries they were ‘going to hell’, others were leading the way, with Colombia and Vanuatu announcing the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in 2026.
David and Pete are teaming up for another McCredie Brothers Tour, after their highly successful debut tour in 2023.
The Northern Rivers Tennis Foundation (NRTF) will start managing the Mullumbimby Tennis Courts from 13 October this year, following Byron Shire Council granting them a five-year licence.
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A large development for 50 small units as part of a co-living development is being proposed at 115-119 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby by CADRE Pty Ltd called The Nest, Mullumbimby (www.nest-mullum.com.au).
The Byron Bay Herb Nursery has announced its launch of Open Employment Pathways.
One of the most powerful moments of theatre I’ve ever seen happened on the stage of a local public school assembly hall a couple of weeks back.
Byron Council has recommitted itself to the task of building a roundabout at Suffolk Park’s Clifford Street intersection, abandoning a government grant that it had secured to install traffic lights at the notorious blackspot.
From now through to the new year is the high point for many businesses in Mullumbimby. It is the time when they have the highest turnover and make the money they need to see them through the leaner times of the year.
The Byron Bay Cricket Club (BBCC) is running a cricket Blast program for six-to-10-year-olds at the Byron Recreation Grounds, Tennyson Steet on Thursday afternoons, 4.30pm start across term four.
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