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I’m with you Mandy…
Dominica Coulthurst, Knockrow
I’m with you Mandy... all the way. Thanks so much for your Soapbox message last week. Always love...
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Cartoon of the week – 28 July, 2021
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Green is the colour of my discontent
Tom Tabart, Co-founder, Byron Greens
The Greens team for the Council election has a problem with the inclusion of Sarah Ndiaye,...
$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.
Entertainment in the Byron Shire and beyond for the week beginning July 28, 2021
It's amazing what you can still go and see and do. Check it out!
Navigating through laws around business lockdowns
This is the full version from the edited down July 28, 2021 Echo print edition:
A flyer circulating within the...
45 Sydney-Ballina travellers exposed to COVID-19
Forty-five travellers from Sydney are being urged to get tested for COVID-19 and continue self-isolation on the Northern Rivers after sharing a flight with a confirmed case.
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Fire update: Evans Head, Woodburn, Swan Bay, New Italy and Iluka monitor conditions
Evans Head, Woodburn, Swan Bay, New Italy and Iluka residents are on Watch and Monitor conditions.
‘Marathon’ rescue of stranded catamaran off Yamba
Volunteers from Marine Rescue Iluka-Yamba have rescued two people on board a disabled 45-foot power catamaran in a seven-hour operation complicated by deteriorating conditions.
Elderly man goes missing at Iluka
Police are appealing for help to locate an elderly man who has gone missing from his home at Iluka.
North coast zone announce Cricket Academy coach
Long-standing cricketer and highly-respected coach in the north coastal zone, Mervyn Bourke, has been appointed to the position of Zone Academy Coach. Mervyn, affectionately...
Mullum boys win right on the bell
Story Dean Trevaskis – Photos Tayla Clorley
The Mullum Moonshiners' only loss in season 2013 came in round three against Iluka. On Saturday the top...
Shiners kick some Cossack butt
Dean Trevaskis
The Mullumbimby Moonshiners only loss so far this season was at the hands of the Iluka Cossacks.
Saturday at Brunswick Heads was the opportunity...
Shiners take on Cossacks
Dean Treavskis
The Moonshiners coming off the bye headed to Iluka for their third consecutive away game. A revived Cossacks side had thumped Grafton the...
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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.
Storylines
Storylines: Growing hope
Hope is a fragile thing in 2021. With the current pandemic and the uncertainty in so many aspects of life, our hope is being shadowed by fear. It is profoundly affecting our humanity.
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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.
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Open-air art walk by the river at Murwillumbah completed
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The Ages of the Tweed mural that accompanies the open-air riverside art walk has now been completed.
