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Beach going, going…
Len Bates, Mullumbimby
I have noticed in the last few years that the poly fibre bags being used to protect the...
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Vax zombies
Paul Stephen, Yamba
Will Ash denounces The Echo for being pro-vax (9 July). The Echo is just being pro-science, and supporting...
Mullum High strike ‘inaccurate’ and ‘misleading’ say Education Department
The Department of Education has accused the Teachers Federation of being inaccurate and misleading following last week’s teachers strike at Mullumbimby High School.
Conservative Byron Shire cr announces election team
The Byron Shire Council’s only conservative member has announced his running team for September’s local government elections.
Strange figures
Alan Dickens, Brunswick Heads
To date (10/07/2021), the inflow into Brunswick Waste Water Treatment Plant has been 1,056,459.53 kilolitres, recycled water...
Think BIG – the Byron Independent Group
Peter Westheimer, Myocum
The upcoming Byron Shire Council election is a great opportunity to elect a majority of diverse, progressive, independent...
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: My Town and The Great Divide
When I walk the streets of my town I feel this. I feel the divide. I watch the masked mingle with the ‘medically exempt’. There’s an unspoken agitation. A sense of ‘them’ and ‘us’. My town is no longer a place of love and acceptance. It is not a place of compassion and kindness. There is an undercurrent of distrust, suspicion and potential violence.
We are being taken.
Stories about "Byron Bay Croquet club":
Croquet club looking out for new members
The Byron Bay Croquet club is one of the town’s oldest sporting clubs at 91-years-old and is looking to grow membership.
The club meets at...
Byron Echo
The truth about Israel
Danny Wakil, Billinudgel
Gareth Smith, you are clearly very passionate, but constantly providing incredibly one-sided opinions, and half-truths get us nowhere (14 July). I am factual...
Local News
John ‘Strop’ Cornell dies
John Cornell, a character credited with initiating major change in Byron Bay after his purchase of the Beach Hotel, has died at his home in Byron Bay, aged 80, surrounded by his wife Delvene Delaney and family.
Editorial
Editorial – Free fi fo dumb?
Hans Lovejoy, editor
Scientists have warned that now the UK has come out of lockdown on ‘freedom day’ (July 19), it will lead to ‘a...
Articles & Columns
Snakes monitor radioactive contamination
Ten years on from the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan – the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl – researchers are using Japanese rat snakes to measure radioactivity in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone.
