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Celebrating the life of Uncle Gordon Johnson 31/8/1950 – 26/1/2023
Pastor Uncle Gordon Johnson died peacefully on January 26. A celebration of his life will take place this Saturday, 11 February at the Mullumbimby Showground.
Other News
Connecting youth at the Quad
Connect Northern Rivers will be hosting a youth-focused event at the Lismore Quad on Wednesday, 8 February from 3.30...
Local legend awarded for her work with Red Cross
Kerrie Gray has recently received a Medal of the Order of Australia and is also Ballina Shire's newest Senior Citizen of the Year. She met The Echo in Alstonville to talk about the ongoing crises facing our region, and what everyone can do to help.
Capitalism
Warren Kennedy wrote an excellent letter last week (28 January) pointing out the deficiencies of capitalism as it exists...
Swivel by name, drivel by nature
The lack of authenticity of Byron Councillor, Mark Swivel, does not come as a surprise from this side of...
Interview with Steve Earle
Steve Earle is not a fluffball of peace, light and unicorns, though he wears his heart on his sleeve – and his jacket and his jeans. It can get messy. And at 68 his work isn’t getting any fluffier. Husband to six wives (one twice-married) and with three sons (his firstborn, Justin Towns Earle, died tragically in 2020), telling it like it is, both personally and professionally makes his work some of the most important in modern music history – Seven recently spoke to Steve at home in New York about life and his preparations for Bluesfest.
The elusive ‘Drop of the Desert’ cocktail
Simon Haslam
What does it take to produce the winning cocktail in a competition held in Byron in the middle...
Stories about "Levee":
Engineering ‘solutions’ won’t get us out of this mess
Engineering works have been proposed to mitigate the extreme flooding experienced in Lismore in February and March 2022.
Disaster unfolding in Lismore and beyond
Levee overtopped: John Walker GM of LIsmore just told ABC North Coast that as at 10.25am the water was just at the top of the levee in Lismore and was trickling over the top. At places in the CBD there are already 3m of water before the overtopping of the levee, and if the water level rises to 11m then most of the CBD will be inundated.
Major Flood bulletin – Wilsons River at Lismore
The SES says they are expecting moderate to major flooding at Lismore from tomorrow morning, Tuesday March 29.
Local News
Helicopters, dogs and the police four day cannabis raid
While we get the hemp industry going on the Northern Rivers and the plant is legal in many countries across the world the police have once again headed out with their choppers and dogs to curb the cannabis cultivation that the region is known for.
Local News
$945 or $45,500 – what is the value of a tree In Kingscliff?
Aslan Shand - 0
Dr Firth questions arborists' valuation of a paperbark tree to be removed for Kingscliff development and says the council needs to 'establish a reasonable standard of tree valuation'.
Political Comment
Remembering the latest victim of domestic violence, killed by a man on bail
I granted bail to men who then killed. I refused bail to several who did not last 24 hours behind bars – shot, stabbed, hanged or drowned in their own vomit.
Byron Echo
Bruns fig tree slated for the chop gets reprieve
Paul Bibby - 0
A much-loved fig tree next to the Brunswick Heads boat harbour has been saved from destruction – for now – by the quick thinking of a local activist.
