DEAR News Of The Area, WE would like to congratulate GACCI and the cast and crew for the fascinating and different monologue production stage at the Senior Citizen Centre on 25 and 26 September. We attended the matinee performance. Not only was the production entertaining, it also gave us something to think about. It is […]
DEAR News Of The Area, ON Saturday, 6 September, just after midnight, our Craven Plateau home and farm shed were totally destroyed by an electrical fire. We would like to express our thanks to the Barrington and Gloucester RFS as well as the Gloucester Town Brigade. They reached the Plateau in record time and did […]
SHOCKED and grieving, she laid her ruined wedding dress on the muddied, mangled pile of treasured belongings. Emergency volunteers bore witness, absorbing her heartbreak while valiantly hosing stinking mud and river slime from her waterlogged home. Unforgiving torrents of floodwaters, fuelled by ‘atmospheric rivers’, left mountains of precious possessions disintegrating in landfill. Tragically, lives and […]
NOTA reporter Sis Higgins, who also runs a marketing agency, gives her top tips for submitting press releases.
AS someone who wears two hats – newspaper reporter and marketing agency owner – I see first-hand the difference between stories that get picked up quickly and those that stall in the inbox. The good news? Most community organisations already have great stories to tell. The challenge is in how that information is shared with […]
YOU may have seen that LGNSW has released its latest independent review into the costs that the State and Federal Government push on to Local Governments in NSW each year. I have been campaigning for the State and Federal Governments to put a stop to their cost shifting patterns that are increasing the financial burden […]
OUR flood recovery work is progressing, and I am continuing to request more financial assistance from the State and Federal Governments for the community and for Council. I was pleased to hear that our request for Category D funding was agreed. This provides access to a significant financial package of measures for our primary producers […]
THE communities of the MidCoast area have just experienced the worst flood in living memory. Council staff and I are working round the clock to address the widespread damage that this has caused and to seek ongoing support from the State and Federal emergency support agencies. I have been meeting with Ministers and agency heads […]
TO THE action enthusiasts who were devastated by the conclusion of John Wick: Chapter 4, there is the promise of exquisitely choreographed violence in the new entry to that film series, Ballerina. Marketed with the tag “From the world of John Wick”, this spin-off concentrates on the exploits of Eva (Ana de Armas), a graduate […]
NOSTALGIA reigns this week with the release of Karate Kid: Legends. Following the unexpected success of the legacy television (or “streaming”) series Cobra Kai, producers have realised there is a great deal of possibility in this franchise which first came to screens more than 40 years ago. The premise remains familiar: a recently uprooted youth, […]
