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Lismore LGA to re-enter Queensland border bubble
As Lismore local government area comes out of lockdown residents will also be permitted extra reasons to cross the border into Queensland from 1am 23 September.
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A letter to my vaccine-hesitant friends
Brought to you by The Echo and Cosmos Magazine
Addressing your concerns…
A few weeks ago, I discovered that some of my friends –...
Second confirmed COVID case in Lismore
Acting Chief Executive Northern NSW Local Health District, Lynne Weir says there one new case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in a resident of the Northern NSW Local Health District.
A moment of your life?
Six questions for Jehovah’s Witness doorknockers:
1. Are you aware that the 2016 Royal Commission into Institutional Handling of Child...
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: We are not for sale
It seems content creators are running out of ideas to make cheap TV. It’s amazing what you can come up with when you lose your ethics! Here’s a few quick pitches: How about a show about chubby rich women trying to drop weight by living in Ethiopia with a malnourished family for six weeks? No?
Mighty energetic greens
Avi Karny wasn’t always an organic farmer. He began his professional life as a scientist, completing a Masters in...
Union wants mandatory vaccination across the board
Representatives of NSW prison officers say they are demanding mandatory vaccinations be adopted across the NSW justice system, with the union saying inmates who refuse the jab should face the same public health restrictions unvaccinated members of the public do.
Stories about "trees":
Following the lead of Western Australia and Victoria
Following the leads of Western Australia and Victoria by adopting a plan to phase out logging of public native forests, is what a local alliance is asking of the NSW Government.
Dorroughby’s Pocket Forest not rocket science
The Dorroughby Environmental Education Centre (DEEC) are the newest members of a growing, prestigious international club – the Pocket Forest club.
Koala group rallies at Forestry office Casino
Days after camping at Myrtle State Forest to block machinery, the Save Banyabba Koalas group have taken their fight to the Casino office of Forestry Corporation of NSW.
Planting trees to save koalas
Between February and June this year, Bangalow Koalas hope to plant over 20,000 koala/rainforest trees with a goal to plant 40,000 by the end of the year.
Byron Echo
Vale Aunty Dulcie Nicholls 21.19.29 – 19.09.21
There is deep sadness in the community at the passing of Arakwal elder and matriarch, Dulcie Joan Nicholls, nee Kay, who was a proud Bundjalung woman born on Country at Tallow Creek, Byron Bay, October 21, 1929.
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Lismore coming out of lockdown
At midnight tonight (Wednesday 22 September) lockdown will be lifted for the Lismore local government area (LGA).
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Controversial Iron Gates development open for comment on 24 September
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The community has 30 days to comment on the latest amended DA for the controversial Iron Gates development at Evans Head before it goes before the Northern Rivers Planning Panel once again.
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Richmond Valley Council looks at thermal waste to energy
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At last night’s Richmond Valley Council meeting, councillors looked at a recommendation that Council receives and notes the information on the next steps to seek Alternate Waste Treatment solutions for landfill and recyclable waste streams.
