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Food prices are up, and so is…
I was shocked to see the cost of local bread I buy in Mullumbimby had risen 40 per cent. That particular loaf is becoming a luxury item.
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Vale Professor Will Steffen – leading climate scientist
Leading climate scientist Professor Will Steffen has died of pancreatic cancer in Canberra at 75.
Trove runs out of funding in June. How will the loss of the service affect Australian and Pacific research?
Most of Trove’s 22 million annual page visits come from members of the public: family historians, students, and general browsers interested in the six billion records it houses. But over the past 14 years, the archive has also become a crucial resource for academic work.
Coastal dystopia
Proto-existentialist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote ‘Money is human happiness in the abstract, and so the man who is no...
Dr Philip Nitschke to visit Lismore
Controversial founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International, Dr Philip Nitschke will hold a free public meeting on NSW’s new Voluntary Assisted Dying Act at the Lismore Workers Club on Saturday.
Ocean Shores swimmers power to strong results at regional swimming competition
A group of seven athletes from the Ocean Shores Aquatics swim team took part in the annual Country Regional...
‘DISASTER’
Government ‘DISASTER’ signs promoting fear of floods are affecting property sales.
We are trying to sell our beautiful family home...
Stories about "chamber music":
Celebrating 18 years of chamber music in Bangalow
It might be tucked away in our local Bangalow but it is one of those events that shouldn’t be missed...
Byron Echo
Abouchar honoured with Order of Australia
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The new head of the Byron Community College (BCC), Chantal Abouchar, has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her contributions to business and the media.
Byron Echo
Appeal for flag stolen from Bruns
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The two Aboriginal flags that fly high over the Brunswick River Bridge on Invasion Day have become a potent symbol of survival and solidarity for many in the Shire.
Byron Echo
TELSTRA – The end of the line?
I live in a valley that was ravaged by flood last year. Telegraph poles were swept out of the ground by landslides and many...
Byron Echo
Dear Byron Shire Council
Why, oh why, did you not add a traffic calming device when you recently sealed Clay Rd, Mullumbimby?
This was a beautiful, quiet lane, that...
