Community members and business leaders in the Lennox Head area are being encouraged to provide input over the next few weeks into the proposed extension of Hutley Drive.
If approved, a two-lane roadway will be constructed extending from the existing section of Hutley Drive to the intersection of North Creek Road and Skennars Head Road, Lennox [...]
Matters of the heart will be front and centre when Alstonville locals Jason Bashforth and Cath Grippo get married in Murwillumbah on Saturday, 6 March.
The Heart Foundation said that instead of giving wedding guests a small gift, the couple decided to make a donation to the Heart Foundation as they have both been touched by [...]
Two Far North Coast politicians are pushing for the return of mobile breast screening to local area.
Greens MP Ian Cohen will ask Health Minister Carmel Tebbutt about improving access for all Northern Rivers women to the new breast screen machines that are at Tweed Heads and Lismore, while Member for Ballina Don Page (pictured) has [...]
Teven Tintenbar Public School’s longest-serving teacher, Bert Berghuis, has retired after racking up an astonishing 22 years of teaching at the school, and having taught over 1000 local students.
Bert was presented with a retirement medallion by Greg Cloak, School Education Director, North Coast Region, at the school today.
The school community also will commemorate Bert’s retirement [...]
The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA), Ballina Shire Council and Lismore Council will hold two free workshops for parents and supervisors of learner drivers.
Jodie Hewett from Ballina Shire Council said the two-hour Helping Learner Drivers Become Safer Drivers course offers parents and supervisors practical advice on how to provide effective driving practice.
“We recognise the important [...]
Ballina Shire residents who work out of their town of residence could save on costs involved in getting to work by being a part of Australia’s first regional carpool network, to be launched on Thursday.
Ballina Shire Council is one of the six local councils helping to fund the network.
Already, partner organisation Southern Cross University has [...]
The Minister for Education and Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and the Federal Member for Page, Janelle Saffin, visited Ballina Public School today to inspect progress on Building the Education Revolution (BER) projects.
Ballina Public school received $2.35 million under the Primary Schools for the 21st Century (P21) initiative for a new school hall and covered [...]
Recycling and reusing items in materialising artworks is a major focus in the upcoming exhibitions to be hosted by the Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina.
‘Darker Shades of Royal’ by Denise N Rall features a series of textile sculptures which represent dystopian royal figures decorated in recycled materials.
Each figure is expressed in a vignette – a [...]
On 10th October 2009, 10-year-old Ellie was holidaying with her family at the Sandon River and found a severely distressed green sea turtle stranded on a sandbank in the river.
This was the second turtle Elli had found there. In December 2008, Elli found a much larger green turtle at the same spot.
Sheldon (named by Ellie) [...]
This is what the design of Ballina’s new Big Prawn will look like.
Dubbed ‘Neville’ by developer Chris Condon, Big Prawn the Second is proposed to be built at the new service centre at the southern entrance to town when the Pacific Highway bypass is completed.
Media reports this week said that Lennox Head artist Angus McDonald [...]
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