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Go Thistles!
Lismore Thistles Soccer Club has launched the Thistles Acceleration Program, in the process becoming the city’s only player development academy.
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Vinnies
What have they done to our Vinnies here in Mullum? They’ve killed it!
It has reopened and it is...
Iconic Mondays
The iconic Reggae Monday is coming back to the Beach Hotel after a long break, and just in time...
TELSTRA – The end of the line?
I live in a valley that was ravaged by flood last year. Telegraph poles were swept out of the...
Cheeky Cabaret returns!
Following the Cheeky season is some incredible live music, including Ella Hooper: Small Town Temple tour, Libby O’Donovan – cabaret singer extraordinaire, Stella Donnelly: Flood Australian tour, Liz Stringer and William Crighton co-headlining in a powerhouse performance, and the house is thrilled to announce the fabulous Tim Rogers & The Twin Set coming in April.
Tributes for songstress Sara Tindley
Hundreds gathered at a small rural property at Lindendale last week to say their final farewells to Sara Tindley, a very much loved personality from the Northern Rivers.
Dr Philip Nitschke to visit Lismore
Controversial founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International, Dr Philip Nitschke will hold a free public meeting on NSW’s new Voluntary Assisted Dying Act at the Lismore Workers Club on Saturday.
Stories about "Plastic Free Boy":
Plastic Free Boy’s call to action for 2021
By way of an introduction for the people new to the Shire, or who do not know me: I am 14-years-old, born in Byron Bay, have been making films to educate people about the problems of, and solutions, to plastic pollution.
Arlian’s plastic film takes him to Asia summit
Byron Bay Public student Arlian Ecker, aka Plastic Free Boy, will take to the stage again, and this time he will be talking to mayors from around Asia and the Pacific in July as he brings them his message on plastic.
Plastic Free boy nominated for Green Globe
Byron Bay 12-year-old Arlian, better known as Plastic Fee Boy, has been nominated as NSW Green Globe Award finalist in the Young Sustainable Champion category.
Plastic Free Boy’s message is spreading
Byron Shire’s Plastic Free Boy has been speaking to the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Graham Quirk about ocean plastic pollution, the need to transition away from single use plastic
Plastic Free Boy inspiring schools
Byron’s Plastic Free Boy, Arlian has been taking to the screen and was recently featured on Channel Ten’s The Project
Dirt Girl celebrates Mullum store going plastic-bag free
ABC’s Dirt Girl and our own local Plastic Free Boy will be hitting the green carpet this Saturday, April 7 to celebrate yet another Mullumbimby store that is getting rid of single use plastic bags.
‘Kids for the Future’ campaign started by Plastic Free Boy
Arlian, the Plastic Free Boy, is taking his message about reducing and reusing plastic to local schools and is asking them to get behind his ‘kids for the future’ campaign.
Byron Echo
Pothole protest gets immediate results
Psst: want to get Council staff to do something about the appalling state of roads in your neighbourhood?
Organise a protest outside Mullum’s Council Chambers!
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Entertainment News
What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Art imitates life in What’s Love Got to Do with It? a 2022 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Shekhar Kapur, from a screenplay by Jemima Khan.
The precis reads: ‘Set between London and Lahore, a filmmaker documents her childhood friend and neighbour’s arranged marriage to a bride from Pakistan.’
Local News
We’ve had the rain bomb, is a fire bomb next?
We had the Black Summer fires and then the floods and NSW Farmers says time is running out to prevent more mass bushfires at the end of this year.
Entertainment News
A smorgasbord of flicks
This year’s smorgasbord of over 40 incredible short films are handpicked from a record 3,200 entries received for Flickerfest’s Academy® and BAFTA Qualifying short-film festival screened recently in Bondi, and Northern Rivers audiences are the first in Australia to experience the best of Flickerfest on tour.
Highlights enjoying their Northern Rivers premiere include recent Academy® nominees and much-loved festival award winners alongside exciting, fresh, local talent.