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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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Entertainment in the Byron Shire for the Week Beginning 21 July, 2021
Still guiding the way to things that will delight you
Byron Shire look out
Paul Brecht, Evans Head
Michael Lyon has formed a Council candidates ticket with a couple of now ex-Greens, himself being an...
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...
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.
About us, without us
Many of us in the Byron Market community feel completely betrayed by the councillors who last week voted to move us again, like an unwanted jigsaw piece.
COVID-19 fines issued while mask sign legalities unclear
As the Greater Sydney area heads into further lockdown, local health authorities say a known COVID-19 infected case stopped at Chinderah truck stop at the Ampol service station (northbound), 112 Tweed Valley Way, near Murwillumbah turnoff.
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Remembering Bentley
Saturday 15 May is the seventh anniversary of Victory Day at the historic Bentley Blockade, just west of Lismore.
Where next for Byron Shire tourism?
The recent release of region by region statistics from Tourism Research Australia has sparked a flurry of responses from local stakeholders in the industry.
Local filmmakers set to Go Viral!
A collection of new micro films are set to Go Viral in the latest project from Screenworks and all three regional offerings will come from the norther rivers.
Cloudcatcher Media highlights farmers in the ‘Sacrifice Zone’
Months into the making of their new film, local duo Cloudcatcher Media has launched a trailer and the farmers who are producing the project have launched a Chuffed crowdfunder
Film asks for submissions against Santos EIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_kxWi6_MWY
Several years in the making, fossil fuel extraction company Santos released their Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Narrabri Gas Project on February 21...
Thank you Jenny
With the local election looming, Mayor Jenny Dowell can look forward to some R&R after eight years at Lismore Council's helm.
Sticking the knife in: the Coalmonster, the CSG Daemon and us
I am getting fairly pissed off – I am just saying that at the outset so you don’t read to the end and get shirty when you find out that the person I am pissed off with is you.
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.
