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Forty per cent of Byron Shire residents yet to get first COVID 19 dose but mayor refuses to join vaccine campaign
Byron Shire Mayor Michael Lyon is refusing to join other health, political and community leaders in calls for people to receive a COVID 19 vaccine.
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Electrici-wee? Getting energy from wastewater
Could we ever use urine to power batteries? An international team of chemists have come a step closer with a new catalyst for urea reactions.
COVID-19 update NSW, September 22
As Byron Bay and Tweed Shire enter on their first day of a snap lockdown, NSW recorded from 8 pm last night 1035 announced Premier Berejiklian.
Equitable allocation
In properly-scrutinised vaccination rollouts it is to be expected that vaccines are used as a device to protect the...
Cadwallader determined to win support for new water science team as part of Dunoon Dam campaign
Cr Cadwallader has taken advantage of a local government rule allowing councillors to reintroduce a failed motion without having to wait three months if they have the signed support of at least two other councillors.
Byron Bay beach party end in PINS and a charge for biting
Police say a woman has been charged and four Penalty Infringement Notices (PINs) issued following a beach party in the Byron Bay area overnight.
Covid 19 virus fragments in Ballina Shire and Grafton sewage
The Northern NSW Local Health District says fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 were detected in samples taken from the North and South Grafton sewage treatment plants on 24 September.
Stories about "Sangiovese Barbera":
Cool Italian summer wines – Prosecco and Sangiovese Barbera
Laurie from the Court House Hotel in Mullumbimby says that his biggest-selling sparkling wine at the moment is the Tobacco Road Prosecco and his biggest-selling red wine is the Sangiovese Barbera.
Science Goes Viral
Electrici-wee? Getting energy from wastewater
Could we ever use urine to power batteries? An international team of chemists have come a step closer with a new catalyst for urea reactions.
Byron Echo
Community gardeners get busy in Suffolk
Suffolk Park Community Gardens was breifly out of lockdown last week, and the gardeners couldn’t wait to get back in the garden.
Local News
Council hopeful of sand returning to eroded Byron beaches
The Byron Shire Council reported ‘indications’ late last week that sand was returning to the popular beaches.
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62-yr-old man still missing, possibly on Northern Rivers
Sixty-two-year old mid-north coast man Richard Fogden has been missing for nearly a fortnight and is possibly on the Northern Rivers.
