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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.
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A disappointing limbo? Byron candidates on delayed council elections
Mr Dey, incumbent Mr Lyon and four other mayoral candidates were already busy campaigning for the top spot when NSW Local Government Minister Shelly Hancock delayed the election for a second time.
Entertainment in the Byron Shire and beyond for the week beginning July 28, 2021
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Byron Shire residents urged to get tested
Fragments of the COVID-19 virus have been found in the Byron Bay sewerage treatment plant (STP) that services Byron Bay, Broken Head, Suffolk Park, Wategos, and Sunrise areas and the Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWHD) are asking residents and visitors to get tested at the first sign of any symptoms.
Sovereign citizens have ‘zero’ legal status in Australia, says former magistrate
Can we really tell authorities we ‘don’t consent’ to rules around mask-wearing, public gatherings or, as was more common before the pandemic, traffic and drug offences, and be excused?
Fake news
Ron Priestley, Main Arm
What Neil Bowhay is proposing (Letters, 14 July) is that The Echo prints fake news.
It is people...
Independent councillor calls for online voting
A manageable and easy-to-navigate system was necessary, Cr Allsop said, one that allowed 'equal presence for all candidates'.
Stories about "Super Saturday":
Beaming pollies paid to lie
T Sharples, Tweed Heads.
Beaming Bill’s (Shorten) ALP leadership threat is gone. He’s now on his way according to the media to the destiny of...
Thus Spake Mungo: Is Bill Shorten the new Bill Hayden?
At last the fateful day is looming – the interminable campaign for the five by elections no-one wanted (except, of course, the media) is finally coming to a climax. Or, in the case of at least two of them, an anti-climax.
Storylines
Storylines: Growing hope
Hope is a fragile thing in 2021. With the current pandemic and the uncertainty in so many aspects of life, our hope is being shadowed by fear. It is profoundly affecting our humanity.
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Northern Rivers responds to cal for COVID-19 testing
Following the flight of a COVID positive traveller from Sydney to Ballina and the detection of COVID fragments in the Byron Bay Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) both locals and visitors have responded to calls for more testing in the region.
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Open-air art walk by the river at Murwillumbah completed
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The Ages of the Tweed mural that accompanies the open-air riverside art walk has now been completed.
Science Goes Viral
Cherry-picked COVID-19 statistics: Were the weekend’s ‘Freedom Rallies’ based on science?
A flyer recently dropped into the letterboxes of some New South Wales residents urged people to attend the controversial ‘Freedom Rallies’ – Let’s break it down and present some context.
