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Byron beach erosion
Ann Tiernan, Suffolk Park
I strongly disagree with Council’s position stated in last week’s Echo that ‘The sand (at Clarkes Beach)...
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Fake news
Ron Priestley, Main Arm
What Neil Bowhay is proposing (Letters, 14 July) is that The Echo prints fake news.
It is people...
Luxury Byron stay discounted
S Haslam
Luxury Byron resort Crystalbrook Byron has come up with an incredible offer to anyone tragically stuck, like us,...
Independent assessment needed to determine use of Alstonville aquifers
The Save Alstonville Aquifer Group have raised concerns regarding the potential impact on the aquifer of making it part...
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.
Magnificent sporting prowess and flag pride after 2021 NAIDOC
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people also shone in the sporting arena during NAIDOC 2021.
Cartoon of the week – 28 July, 2021
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Stories about "Gasfields":
Country women are standing up for the land
The second state Country Women’s Association has raised its hand to protect the future of the land and rural communities.
Nannas serve it up for families at Chinchilla gas fields
The Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG) promised the families of the Chinchilla gas fields that they would not forget them and they are keeping their Nanna word.
Byron Echo
A day of ‘thank you’
Alison Drover, Broken Head
How about a day of ‘thank you’ to our health workers and ‘sorry’ from our prime minister and ‘please’ from the community?
Instead...
Letters
Nolan’s Soapbox
Duncan Shipley-Smith, Byron Bay
The sinister suggestion by Nolan in last week’s Echo conflating anti-vaccination supporters with extreme right-wing ideology (XRW) demands a response.
This is...
Local News
Shooting in Nimbin
There is a police operation currently underway in Nimbin following a shooting earlier today.
Local News
Knife-wielding criminal on the loose in Byron Bay
Aslan Shand - 1
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...
