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Cartoon of the week – 27 October, 2021
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.
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When is a sock not a sock?
A sock is not talked about much – it’s a simple device that is very well known.
As the world...
#BigBadBiomass – protesters reject burning trees for energy
North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) and the NSW Forest Defenders have thrown their support behind the protests against the burning of Biomass to generate electricity across Australia ahead of the Glasgow Climate Change Conference (COP) 26.
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: ‘What’s that, Skip?’
I love Kangaroos. Like most people my age I grew up eating my dinner off a Skippy plate. Seeing Sonny and Skip was a real incentive to finish my dinner. I wanted a kangaroo friend too. I wanted to say ‘What’s that, Skip?’ And Skip would tell me ‘There was a murder down at the gorge’...
NSW – bad to worse
While Gladys has left the building and we have a new religious fanatic in the top job, things are...
Who can I trust?
COVID, WHO SHOULD I TRUST ?
I tend to trust people who care,
who demonstrate they have no agenda,
but to be...
Chainsaw accident Ewingsdale
A 44-year-old arborist suffered a serious lower leg injury following a chainsaw accident at a Ewingsdale property yesterday.
Stories about "VIEW Club":
Library bags – for the love of literacy
A charming new initiative has been launched by the ladies of the Brunswick Valley VIEW Club and local public schools.
Local News
Ben Smith leaving Ballina Council
David Lowe - 0
The unique contributions of current Deputy Mayor Ben Smith to Ballina Shire Council are coming to an end, as he's decided to hang up his councillor hat after thirteen years, and not contest the December election.
Byron Echo
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: ‘What’s that, Skip?’
Mandy Nolan - 0
I love Kangaroos. Like most people my age I grew up eating my dinner off a Skippy plate. Seeing Sonny and Skip was a real incentive to finish my dinner. I wanted a kangaroo friend too. I wanted to say ‘What’s that, Skip?’ And Skip would tell me ‘There was a murder down at the gorge’...
Byron Echo
Entertainment in the Byron Shire for the week beginning 26 October, 2021
Letting you know whats on in the Shire
The Good Life
Blue skies for Blueberry Fields
Blueberry Fields is very much a family business with father-and-son team Otto and Jasch Saeck working alongside each other on their 160-acre farm at...
