We’re still getting used to the name ‘George’s Cottages’, but the residents are well and truly settled into life with the new managment of their home.

With requests for music by Bizet, Paganini, Puccini, and Nat King Cole singing Irving Gordon’s Unforgettable, and poems by Banjo Patterson, Joyce Kilmer and Clare Harner, Kate Smorty had everything in place, for the time when she was not.

The spearhead in the fight to save Feros Village, and five days shy of her 97th birthday, Byron Bay resident Kate Smorty passed away last week at George's Cottages.

At least one former resident of the former Feros aged care village in Byron Bay, now known as George’s Cottages, is getting ready to move back.

A new era started this morning at the former Feros aged care village in Byron Bay, home to around forty residents this time last year.

Feros Byron Bay residents were surprised to see contents of the facility placed in large skips bins in the rain and a portrait of George Feros along with his collection box and bell removed from the common room yesterday.

The eight remaining residents will remain at Feros Village Byron Bay after it closes on January 29, 2024, with the Department of Health and Aged Care taking on responsibility for their care.

A whole community can expel a sigh of relief at the breaking news that months of distress and sadness can now become part of history – this morning the Minister for Crown Lands, Steve Kamper, has announced that services providers for aged care are advised that Expressions of Interest (EOI) are now open for Feros Village Byron Bay.

At yesterday’s Byron Shire Council Meeting, during a Mayoral Minute, Mayor Michael Lyon moved a motion to confirm that Council supports Crown Lands running an Expression of Interest process to test interest from potential aged care providers for Feros Village.

This Wednesday, July 19, residents at Byron Feros are expected to vacate their rooms for the last time – they feel they are being kicked out of home