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Can Council’s overturn their decisions?
NSW Labor planning minister, Paul Scully, when asked about the Wallum estate by local MP Tamara Smith (Greens) in...
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Funds sought to complete clubhouse
Byron Bay Football Club may finally get the funds to complete its new clubhouse, with Byron councillors to consider loaning the club $200,000 at this week’s meeting.
Third village for Alstonville Plateau?
A proposal to assess the viability of a third village on the Alstonville Plateau was discussed at Ballina Shire Council's last meeting.
Wage peace not war
Northern Rivers Peace group, Remembering and Healing is inviting all community members to a peace gathering on the eve of ANZAC Day.
Tweed Council wants your ideas on future sports facilities
Tweed Council is looking for feedback from residents about future plans for sport and recreation in the area.
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It is, at best, amusing, but mostly disappointing, to see The Echo reporting on the mayoral minute to Council...
Mass tree-planting planned for Bruns River in Mullum
More than five thousand native plants are to be planted along Brunswick River banks in Mullumbimby.
Stories about "Cr Carolyn Byrne":
Quarter of a century long enough for Polglase
Stephanie Deane, Group B Tweed Shire Council candidate
This week residents of Tweed have the opportunity to change the face of council. It's no good...
Tweed Nats’ familiar tricks
Stephanie Deane, Tweed Shire Council candidate, Tweed Heads.
Tweed Council currently has a Request for Offer (RFO) 2016217 titled expression of interest – licence to conduct a...
Tweed councillor pledges disputed money to koalas
A Tweed shire councillor will have her disputed claims of hundreds of dollars in travel expenses reimbursed after she voted with colleagues to pay her out, despite an audit finding she had provided insufficient detail of where she went or what she did.
Tweed councillor’s expense-claim details ‘inadequate’
Tweed ratepayers will foot a bill of hundreds of dollars for travel claims by one of their councillors despite no details provided of where they went and for what.
Tweed councillor spat sparked by ‘elite’ tennis-club loan
Outgoing Tweed mayor Gary Bagnall claims he was under pressure to sign council documents for a controversial $100,000 interest-free loan to an elite tennis club when he snapped at a fellow councillor who has since taken the spat to police and the courts.
Tweed councillor’s dummy spit petulant and wasteful
Ron Cooper, Kingscliff. So Tweed shire councilllor Carolyn Byrne has demanded a police investigation because, it seems, she may have been called a cow.
Tweed council spat ‘stretches thin blue line’
The laying of a police complaint by a Tweed shire councillor against a political opponent after last Thursday’s mayoral-election meeting has been described as the ‘Tweed’s biggest ever dummy spit’.
Why does Tweed’s Cr Byrne vote against mayoral minutes?
Elizabeth Jack, Tyalgum. After reading through the minutes of all the ordinary Tweed Shire Council meetings this year (on council's website) I find that Cr Carolyn Byrne has voted against accepting Gary Bagnall's mayoral minutes every month since January (seven times).
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The bridges of Ballina Council
Ballina Shire Council has started preliminary investigation works at Fishery Creek Bridge, on River Street, and Canal Bridge, on Tamarind Drive, as part of their plan to duplicate both bridges.
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Tweed Council wants your ideas on future sports facilities
Tweed Council is looking for feedback from residents about future plans for sport and recreation in the area.
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REDinc’s new Performing Arts Centre is go!
It’s been a long wait, but two years on from the 2022 flood REDinc in Lismore have announced the official opening of a new Performing Arts Centre.
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Not enough letters like this about Gaza in The Echo?
The Echo’s studied indifference to the plight of the Palestinians and its reluctance to publish letters on the subject reveals the moral fibre of...
