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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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Nudging into a Smarter Summer
Nudge Nudge Wink Wink! 2023’s summer continues with a lineup that’s guaranteed to have you deliciously dancing from the moment you arrive.
Old ANZ Mullum
The old ANZ Bank building on Burringbar Street in Mullum is now a bathhouse; such yuppy city indulgence to...
Byron Bay SLSC takes fourth place at NSW country championships
South coast club Warillanhas overturned five years of Cudgen Headland dominace to win this year’s NSW Country Surf Lifesaving...
Appeal for flag stolen from Bruns
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.
Bundjalung host Byron Shire Survival Day
Main Beach Park in Cavanbah – Byron Bay, was the place where both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people gathered yesterday to celebrate the longest-living culture in the world – people who are now living on unceded land.
The greater good
Byron Council has ratified the International Charter of Human Rights, complete with fine legal minds that developed a Charter...
Stories about "Currumbin Swell Sculpture Festival":
Last chance to catch the SWELL
Fifty sculptures line the beautiful stretch of beach at Currumbin on the Gold Coast until September 17. The SWELL sculpture festival is celebrating it’s fifteenth year as it transforms the golden sands of Currumbin Beach.
Swell times ahead at Currumbin
The Swell Sculpture Festival at Currumbin is now celebrating its 15th year and Byron Shire artists will once again be involved in the free ten-day exhibition on Currumbin Beach from September 8 till 17.
What a Swell Festival it is
While we on the northern rivers are lucky to have some great galleries in our area, what better setting is there for sculpture than in nature itself?
Swell sculpture festival drew record numbers
Record numbers hit this year's Currumbin's Swell Sculpture Festival which closed at the weekend.
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...