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Forum to address housing emergency, March 8
A grassroots movement is bringing women, community and art together on International Women’s Day (March 8) in an urgent push to solve the local housing emergency.
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Tweed Council rejects Casuarina disability viewing platform
Issues of queue jumping, the allocation of Tweed Shire Council’s resources in both time and money, and responding to...
Suffolk Park pump track for Cavanbah
Kathy Gleeson, Suffolk Park
When I first heard of, and supported, the pump track at the Linda Vidler Park in Suffolk...
Monkey see
Daniel Brown, Byron Bay
Back in my early youth growing up in Mt Eliza Victoria in the ‘90s I’d secretly...
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Dear Brittany
We watched you. We watched you break the silence. We heard the truth shatter like a glass hitting the tiles.
Ballina Dragon Boaters win world championships
Shelley Cornish from Tintenbar has won two gold medals in the world indoor rowing championships as well as a world record time, while husband Paul Hurley chimed in with a silver medal.
Belongil beach hut
L S Lambert, Byron Bay
The illegal building on Belongil Beach (Letters, 12 February) is a permanent structure with no...
Stories about "Brunswick Heads memorial trees":
Greens secure pledge from minister to protect Brunswick’s Cypress Pines
Local residents and concerned community members have once again been drawing the attention of the public to the way the NSW Crown Holiday Parks Trust have been managing the Coastal Cyprus pines located on Crown Reserve lands at the Brunswick Heads Terrace Holiday Park.
Byron Greens councillors missing in action over WWI trees
Patricia Warren, Brunswick Heads. The descendants of those whose forefathers fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front should be publicly outraged by Byron Shire Council's decision not to recognise the WW1 Memorial Pine Park in the Terrace, Brunswick Heads as a war memorial.
Local News
Bangalow blackspot puts school children at risk
Paul Bibby - 1
Will action ever be taken to protect school kids getting on and off the bus on Lismore Road, Bangalow as trucks fly by at 80km/h?
Local News
Lifting the lid on plans to build a retirement village in Ewingsdale
Paul Bibby - 1
The letter sent to the residents of Ewingsdale last year by holiday park owner Ingenia seemed fairly innocuous at first glance...
Local News
Byron’s new road: the good and not so
After more than 30 years of talk, debate, disagreements, tears and political gridlock, Byron Bay has a new road to divert traffic from the CBD to the southern end of town.
Byron Echo
Interview with Janet Swain
Janet Swain is 14. She’s in love with the tragic and brilliant cellist Jacquleine DuPré. But one day her mother arrives home with a bassoon.
