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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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Joyride tears up Chinderah golf course fairway
Police say that three youths were caught joyriding on golf club vehicles at Chinderah late last Friday evening.
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.
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...
Bruns North Arm
Jillian Spring, BillinudgelRegarding your article ‘A positive change to bring back the Bruns’, (Echo, 14 July).
Since 2013/14 submissions to Council,...
OPINION: Australia’s COVID-19 fantasy could’ve been real
Getting too caught up in the details can mean that we are distracted, says political commentator Andrew Street – we need to step back to ask the bigger question of why we’re at this point at all.
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...
Stories about "public housing NSW":
Government runs and hides on housing crisis
Jan Barham MLC, Greens housing spokesperson. The NSW coalition government’s refusal to provide a response to the parliamentary inquiry into Social, Public and Affordable Housing until after the NSW election is a disgrace.
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.
