Local News
11 Mar 10 | Bowraville Central School has a newly established trust founded by local Bowraville artist Les Murdock for students in need.
11 Mar 10 | Young athletes around the valley will get the opportunity to train regularly, improving their chances at competing in local, state, national and even international sporting events after Nambucca Shire Council agreed to auspice the sporting program ‘Promoting Social Inclusion through Sport’ at its March 4, general meeting.
11 Mar 10 | Macksville High School students get taste of 9-5 life.
11 Mar 10 | Nambucca Heads High School student Simon Ella moves into second year of school-based apprenticeship.
11 Mar 10 | The question on the lips of Margaret Davies at the White Albatross Kiosk is... do we serve the best fish ‘n’ chips in the land?
11 Mar 10 | Rather than being disbanded by Nambucca Shire Council, the Nambucca River Estuary and Coastline Management Committee will instead take on a new name and shed some of its membership.
11 Mar 10 | Nambucca Shire Council will hire consultants to undertake ecological studies required for the draft Local Environmental Plan. The decision was passed at council’s March 4 meeting.
11 Mar 10 | Aboriginal elder, Coral Campbell from Bowraville, will be taking over as manager of the Box Office Café at the Bowraville Theatre, after Nambucca Shire Council consented to sub-lease the café to the Bowraville Local Aboriginal Land Council at the general meeting last week (4th).
11 Mar 10 | Local residents ignore wet weather to ‘Clean Up Australia’
11 Mar 10 | The Nambucca Valley Cancer Support Group will start construction of a new purpose-built
facility for cancer patients that will be located at the Macksville hospital.
11 Mar 10 | It would appear from all the activity on High Street, Bowraville that the local economy is enjoying a
much-needed boost to business.
04 Mar 10 | Local community radio station 2NVR will feature an interview with legendary horseman John Stanton on March 6.
04 Mar 10 | Nambucca Heads Public School held its annual students representative induction day on February 26.
04 Mar 10 | Bowraville Central School students joined local Aboriginal elders last week to recognise and celebrate the day Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said sorry for the stolen generation.
04 Mar 10 | Projected noise and vibration impacts on residents resulting from the Pacific Highway bypass of Macksville, were discussed at a public meeting with RTA
representatives last week (24th).
04 Mar 10 | Bullying in schools around the nation seems to be an ever-present issue, but high school principals in the valley share the same vision to promote positivity.
04 Mar 10 | The Scotts Heads Public School has lashed out at claimes it will not continue its swim and survive program for the village’s school children.
04 Mar 10 | This year’s Clean-up Australia Day, (Sunday, 7th) marks the 20th anniversary of the environmental campaign.
04 Mar 10 | Friday saw the culmination of 13 years work – finally our little old shed on the banks of the river, which began its life as the fishing inspector’s boat shed, was knocked down.
04 Mar 10 | Hunger strike protester Peter Spencer met with local farmers and landowners at a public meeting at Macksville Country Club last Saturday (27th), on day three of his ‘Tower of Hope’ national speaking tour.