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Mt Warning ban
Chris Gee, Byron Bay
Indigenous readers be advised that the following letter contains references to persons deceased.
I read with some...
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Editorial – Ewingsdale development creep rejected by residents
A petition of 294 signatures against rezoning Ewingsdale farmland to commercial use will be presented to councillors for their upcoming Thursday meeting.
Ballina sludge a mixture of blue-green algae species
A reader has sent Echonetdaily some photos of what he described as 'something nasty and green coming down the Richmond River'.
Family Court scrapped
Despite overwhelming opposition from Australia’s family law specialists and advocates, the federal Liberal-Nationals government and cross benchers scrapped the Family Law Court and subsumed it into the circuit courts last week.
Loveday wins All Shorts second year in a row
Filmmakers travelled from where COVID allowed this weekend to be part of the 30th birthday celebrations for Flickerfest in...
Tweed Council rejects Casuarina disability viewing platform
Issues of queue jumping, the allocation of Tweed Shire Council’s resources in both time and money, and responding to...
Final stage of Lismore Base Hospital gets underway
The redevelopment works commenced in late 2016 and the final stage is now getting underway to complete the Lismore Base Hospital refurbishment.
Stories about "Shores United":
Shores all-girl U/10 squad has first run
The U/10 Dolphins are one of two new all-girl teams at the Shores United Soccer Club and they had their first game on the...
Shores win three from three
The 2018 season kicked off in fine style for Shores United with all three sides winning their opening games of the regular season.
The first...
Shores United kick off with a big win
The Shores United ANZAC Cup B team got their season off to a great start with a 6–0 win over Kyogle two weeks ago.
After...
Shores United claim new home ground with ‘emphatic win’
The Shores United Brown Snakes claimed a great a comeback win to put their stamp on the Shire’s newest sport’s field on Shara Boulevard in Ocean Shores two weeks ago.
Brown Snakes win ANZAC Cup
A bus load of supporters made the trip to cheer the Shores United Brown Snakes in there win over the Richmond Rovers in Lismore for the ANZAC Cup.
Byron Echo
‘The Great Reset’
Gary Opit, Wooyung
I appreciated the letter by Lucas Wright (17 February) on the Great Reset conspiracy fantasy. With our privileged, western, simplistic understanding of...
Byron Echo
Letting go
Mary McMorrow, Mullumbimby
I respect the parents forgiving the drunk driver who killed their four children (one a cousin) as their way of dealing with...
Byron Echo
Ministers misbehave
Keith Duncan, Pimlico
Accusations of appalling behaviour by the Liberal Party in covering up misdeeds within its ranks just keep on keeping on. The last...
Byron Echo
Transparency needed
Janelle Saffin MP, State Member for Lismore.
I read with interest Mia Armitage’s front page article in last week’s Echo ‘Electorates miss out on bushfire...