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Park tenants to be given a sayThursday, 04 February 2010
Residents of caravan parks and manufactured home estates throughout the Tweed will be informed of developments likely to impact on their lifestyle under long-sought changes to council notification procedures.
The council has unanimously supported a push by Chinderah councillor Kevin Skinner to include the shire’s estimated 35,000-plus park...Read More |
New K’cliff boardwalk not so popularThursday, 04 February 2010
The privately-owned pontoons off the new boardwalk along the Cudgen Creek estuary at south Kingscliff are proving popular for many who use them for diving off or sunbaking, but nearby residents are not amused. Photo Luis Feliu
Residents of waterfront apartments next to the new boardwalk/cycleway along Cudgen Creek in Kingscliff have enjoyed...Read More |
| SCU researcher seeks oral historiesThursday, 04 February 2010
Older people living from Tweed Heads to Kyogle who can share their memories of the region’s early history are being urged to take part in an oral history study of the region.
Southern Cross University (SCU) researcher Theresa Mason has embarked on her PhD research project – an oral history of the Northern Rivers – and already has a range of... Read More |
Lakeside Park additions will ‘fall in buffer zone’Thursday, 04 February 2010
Betty Rudman and her son Roy at the boundary fence between her property and the park with its man-made lake. Trees along the boundary area have been thinned.
Longtime Kingscliff resident Betty Rudman, who lives next door to Noble Lakeside Park, and her son Roy sympathise with park residents opposed to the filling of a man-made lake there...Read More |
| EditorialRally review whitewashThursday, 04 February 2010
The upcoming ‘review’ of the controversial world rally held last September through Tweed and Kyogle shires, to determine whether the event should return, threatens to be nothing but a whitewash,... Read More | EditorialQuestions of secrecyFriday, 29 January 2010
Councillors had to sit through a blitz of questions on notice from Cr Katie Milne last week, and they got rather cranky. But if they had been doing their job properly they would have applauded... Read More |
EditorialPay rise undeservedThursday, 21 January 2010
Under normal circumstances, many people would not begrudge a 55 per cent pay rise for Tweed councillors.
The current $15,500-a-year pay is paltry reimbursement for those who take their jobs...Read More | Mandy NolanHow do you make a mango?Thursday, 21 January 2010
A mango woke the baby. After an hour of jiggling and rocking, singing and feeding I had managed to lull my pink sweetmeat into slumber. I lay her gently into the cot, awestruck by her swaddled...Read More |
