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BB FC women close in on points championship
Ross Kendall
The Byron Bay FC premier league women’s team have maintained their dominant position on the ladder after a...
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Northern Rivers responds to cal for COVID-19 testing
Following the flight of a COVID positive traveller from Sydney to Ballina and the detection of COVID fragments in the Byron Bay Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) both locals and visitors have responded to calls for more testing in the region.
Knife-wielding criminal on the loose in Byron Bay
A terrifying media release is still on the loose in Byron Bay after escaping from the computers of Council candidates Rhett Holt and Cr Alan Hunter. 'It is a frightful to wake up at three in the morning to a man blood dripping with a backpack full of knives using your shower,' the [sic] release said...
SE Queensland’s lockdown and local schools
The South East Queensland three day lockdown, from 4pm Saturday 31 July to 4pm Tuesday 3 August 2021, will...
Westerly winds challenge Tweed Valley sailors
Matt Andrews
The experience of John Haywood and the other crew members of Capers triumphed in the winter westerlies and...
Ballina Shire Council supports application for new croquet club
The Ballina Croquet Club is hoping to receive up to $300,000 in funding for a new club house at Cawarra Park.
$10k fine for man who flew to Ballina while COVID infected, as govt takes Pfizer vaccine from regions
A young man who left COVID lockdown in Sydney and flew to Ballina while infected with the virus has been fined nearly $10,000 for numerous health order breaches in NSW and Queensland.
Stories about "G4 tower":
Wilsons Ck Telstra tower rejected
A unanimous vote by councillors at Thursday’s meeting (Sept 20) has refused a development application (DA) for a 3 and 4 G mobile tower in Wilsons Creek, located behind Mullumbimby.
Sport
Westerly winds challenge Tweed Valley sailors
Matt Andrews
The experience of John Haywood and the other crew members of Capers triumphed in the winter westerlies and run out tide that greeted...
Entertainment News
Entertainment in the Byron Shire for the week beginning 4 August, 2021
It's time to get out and see our wonderful performers whilst you can.
Byron Echo
Interview with Ross Wilson, composer and Daddy Cool frontman
Eve Jeffery - 0
When the likes of Jimmy Barnes, Michael Gudinski and Sir Elton John call out a song as ‘one of the great Australian rock ‘n’ roll songs’, ‘one of the greatest songs of all time’, and ‘one of my favourite tracks’, then you know it was and still is, a hit.
Byron Echo
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: A Sobering Tale
Mandy Nolan - 1
Like most people I know alcoholism is in my genes. My father was an alcoholic. He drove drunk into another car, killed himself and an innocent man.
He was 30. I’m 53.
