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Lismore Women’s Festival cancelled
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis that is sweeping NSW and other states in Australia the Lismore Women’s Festival has been cancelled.
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Free KYUP! Project workshops
Empowering our next generation to value and champion their safety and well being through self-worth and self-defence is the mission of the KYUP Project who are running free workshops in the Northern Rivers today and tomorrow.
Friends of Loft
Become a Friend of Loft with their new local loyalty member program. Enjoy member-only benefits and offers, invite-only events, and...
Lismore Council chooses costly by-election over ‘countback’ if a council position becomes vacant
New Councillor Big Rob took to the floor of the Lismore Council chambers during the first council meeting (Tuesday...
Mullumbimby Indian Restaurant
The Mullum Indian Restaurant is situated, conveniently, a short drive from town, at the Mullumbimby Golf Club and...
Over 1,000 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Northern Rivers
There have been 1,099 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWHD) to 8pm 18...
Cartoon of the week – 19 January, 2022
The Echo loves your letters and is proud to provide a community forum on the issues that matter most to our readers and the people of the NSW north coast. So don't be a passive reader, send us your epistles.
Stories about "rebecca ireland":
Local Songwriters up the Creek
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This Saturday inserts the third edition of the North Coast Songwriters Session into the fabric of our music history. Five of our region’s finest...
Friday’s 4 the locals
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Rebecca and the Wild Bear
Rebecca Ireland has been a local to the far north coast for around two decades – here she has found,...
Byron Echo
Vale Byron girl, Patricia Marcia Dailhou
Patricia, better known as Pat or Patsy, was born in Byron Bay in 1933 and was the second eldest of nine, to Horace Cecil Vernon Freeman (better known as ‘Bluey’) and Dorothy Lulu Freeman (nee Daniels).
Byron Echo
Daintree buyback sees more forest retained
Aslan Shand - 0
Over the last two-and-a-half years the Mullumbimby based Rainforest 4 Foundation has had a mission to buy back parts of the Daintree Lowland Rainforest that were subdivided for sale in the 1980s.
Local News
Over 1,000 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Northern Rivers
There have been 1,099 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWHD) to 8pm 18 January. These numbers include 663...
Byron Echo
Localisation shines as supply chains weaken
Paul Bibby - 0
While Coles and Woolworths struggle with supply chain issues caused by the Omicron outbreak, local farmer’s markets and independent food retailers appear to be coming into their own.
