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Exciting lineup for 2021 Bangalow Music Festival
Southern Cross Soloists (SXS) yesterday unveiled a stellar Bangalow Music Festival program for August 2021. The theme for the 19th festival is 'music’s inexhaustible joie de vivre'.
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Your Local Club Academy Games
The North Coast Academy of Sport prepared its largest squad ever to compete at the 2021 Your Local Club Academy Games, held in the Hunter region last weekend.
Upside down river
Richard White, East Ballina
I was going to deride the various government departments and agencies (DPI, DPE, OEH, EPA etc) that...
Arakwal chemicals
David Gilet, Byron Bay
I have long been dismayed by the use of Glyphosate by Parks & Wildlife in Arakwal National...
Head-on crash car traveling in wrong direction
Police say that two men are in hospital after an accident on the M1 overnight, when emergency services responded to reports of a crash involving two cars near Clothiers Creek
Electricity ‘fun facts’
Anonymous, Ballina
I’m surprised that a part of David Lowe’s online article of March 15 slipped under the fact-check radar (‘Tamara Smith...
Common courtesy
Anonymous, Byron Bay
First of all, thank you to those customers who did the right thing and wore their masks in...
Stories about "Beanieoligist":
Meggan’s noggin covers coveted at Beaniefest
Well known for serving chai and delicious cake from the Rainbow Chai Tent, Meggan Jack is also a Beanieologist of some renown.
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Pickleball taking off in Ballina
Combining elements of tennis, badminton and table tennis, pickleball is the fastest growing sport in the USA. Recently the 'Ballina Picklers' travelled to Sydney to compete in the NSW Pickleball Championship Open.
Byron Echo
Understand climate?
Peter Olson, Goonengerry
Have you noticed it getting a bit chilly at night recently? Do you think we will have a mild ‘global warming winter’, or...
Local News
Fast Buck$ ejected from Byron Council meeting
During this morning's Byron Shire Council meeting a dispute between the Mayor Simon Richardson and local activist and agitator Fast Buck$ over the pronunciation of Cr Sarah Ndiaye's name led to the meeting being suspended.
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Shenhua gone and Breeza breathes again
Eve Jeffery - 0
In a much-hoped-for move, the NSW Government and the China Shenhua Energy Company Limited have reached a $100 million agreement in which Shenhua will withdraw its mining lease application and surrender its development consent for the Shenhua Watermark Coal project at Breeza on the Liverpool Plains.
