Lennox Head-Alstonville Surf Lifesaving Club has finished as the leading New South Wales competitor as NSW athletes dominated the final session of competition at the East Coast Championships at Kurrawa today, winning all but one of the board races held over from Saturday’s competition.
Lennox finished ninth overall behind the might of Queensland’s glamour clubs.
The club’s [...]
Northcliffe clubmates Zane Holmes and Hayley Bateup were the toast of surf lifesaving in October when they won the Coolangatta Gold and have returned to the Gold Coast in style by taking out the blue ribbon events on day two of the East Coast Championships yesterday — a day which saw Lennox Head-Alstonville finish as [...]
A body-boarder who was attacked by a shark off a Ballina beach this morning has escaped serious injury.
The man’s injuries have been described as ‘not life-threatening’ by police, although he did receive serious injuries to his leg.
Surfers who were in the water at the time said the shark grabbed the man’s leg as he took [...]
2004, 2005 and 2006 national champions Northcliffe are setting the pace and lead the overall pointscore after day one of the East Coast Championships at Kurrawa SLSC on Queensland’s Gold Coast, where the Lennox Head-Alstonville club’s great season continued today.
Team events were the focus of the opening day, with Queensland’s numbers far outweighing their NSW [...]
Lennox Head and Cumbalum residents will soon have a much more secure power supply, Member for Ballina Don Page said today.
Mr Page said the new $5.5 million zone substation built to upgrade the power supply to Lennox Head and Cumbalum would be energised this Sunday, with full power into the grid two weeks later.
“The cable [...]
What do residents of Skennars Head and South Ballina have in common with those living in remote areas such as Birdsville?
Not much, you would think.
But there is one major link those places have, despite those on the coast living in an area with all the trappings of a modern lifestyle, as opposed to the harsher [...]
The NSW Liberal/Nationals Coalition will provide stamp duty concessions to rental accommodation investors to help address the affordable housing crisis, Shadow Minister for North Coast Don Page said.
Mr Page said the NSW Labor Government’s poor property policies like vendor tax and land tax discouraged investment in rental properties, exacerbating the rental accommodation crisis.
He said a [...]
Milestones and Memories, an historical account of the Alstonville district, will be launched next month.
The book has been compiled by the Alstonville Plateau Historical Society and will be launched by Ballina Shire Mayor Phillip Silver on Friday, March 16, in the RSL hall, Bugden Avenue, Alstonville.
The Historical Society says the book is a collection of [...]
Surfing conditions from Evans Head north to Lennox Head are poor, with a strong onshore wind.
Ballina’s beaches are blown out, and the weather reports suggest that the onshores will continue over the weekend.
Byron Bay might offer some shelter from the wind, but, as usual, expect a crowd!
Member for Ballina Don Page today welcomed an additional 13 probationary police officers for the Richmond Local Area Command (LAC) and 7 new officers for the Tweed-Byron LAC.
Mr Page said the extra officers would give a more visible police presence, help reduce response times and hopefully enable more proactive policing in the area.
“These extra Richmond [...]
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