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Pump upgrade to strengthen flood resilience

Lismore’s CBD will be better protected from localised flooding, with a major upgrade to the Browns Creek Pump Station set to begin construction in November.
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Byron EchoLiz Levy, Suffolk Park - 0

Special Rate Variation

Why are we on a fiscal cliff and looking at a second 30+ per cent Special Rate Variation (SRV)...
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Future of 70 hectares of Lismore buyback land up for debate

Lismore residents are being asked to help decide what should happen to more than 70 hectares of flood-buyback land across the city.
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Byron EchoPeter Olson, Goonengerry - 0

End of the world

Trump’s recent statement that he may invade Iran and capture the oil raises the distinct possibility, that the Strait...
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Club raises thousands to support flood survivors

The Rotary Club of Alstonville has raised $5,000 to support families in Nepal who have been displaced by recent flash floods.
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Local landscapes explored in new body of work

Northern Rivers artist Bridie Amelia Schmidt brings Terra Nos Curat, a new body of work exploring the region’s varied natural environments, from waterways and coastal edges to rainforest, rolling hills and rocky escarpments, to the Lennox Arts Collective gallery this November.
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Local NewsPaul Bibby - 0

Forty per cent of Byron’s red-bin rubbish could be composted

Around 40 per cent of the rubbish being thrown into Byron Shire’s general waste bins could instead be going into the green bin, a new Council audit has found.
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Club raises thousands to support flood survivors

Local News The Echo - 0
The Rotary Club of Alstonville has raised $5,000 to support families in Nepal who have been displaced by recent flash floods.
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Free legal help available for cyclone-affected residents

Local News The Echo - 0
Legal Aid NSW lawyers say they are on standby to provide free legal help to people impacted by Tropical Cyclone Alfred in NSW.
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Lavertys Gap water supply assessment to go ahead

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Byron Shire councillors Janet Swain (Labor) and Jack Dods (independent) brought a motion ‘to stop a further report on Mullumbimby’s Lavertys Gap water supply, to cease all further work on the Mullumbimby water supply from Lavertys Gap, and shut down the treatment plant,’ to the last Council meeting.
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World Cerebral Palsy Day

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Cerebral Palsy Alliance (CPA) is calling on the Australian government to support formal United Nations recognition of 6 October as World Cerebral Palsy Day, creating a permanent global platform to raise awareness, strengthen support and drive action for the 50 million people living with cerebral palsy worldwide.
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Local News

Local landscapes explored in new body of work

The Echo - 0
Northern Rivers artist Bridie Amelia Schmidt brings Terra Nos Curat, a new body of work exploring the region’s varied natural environments, from waterways and coastal edges to rainforest, rolling hills and rocky escarpments, to the Lennox Arts Collective gallery this November.
Read more
Local News

Club raises thousands to support flood survivors

The Echo - 0
The Rotary Club of Alstonville has raised $5,000 to support families in Nepal who have been displaced by recent flash floods.
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