Dec 7: Scheduled for four days, the Appeal Court hearing into the unsolved murders of the three Aboriginal children in Bowraville 27 years ago entered its sixth day.
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Dec 7: Christmas came a week early for us all as Roads Minister Melinda Pavey confirmed that the Warrell Creek to Nambucca Pacific Highway upgrade will be open from before the festive season kicks off.
Dec 7: NSW Container Deposit Scheme is rolled out with Nambucca residents expected to make a 160km round trip to drop off containers at the nearest collection point in Woolgoolga.
Dec 7: Midco Smallgoods was greenlighted for demolition into 19 residential allotments, starting early next year.
Dec 14: It will be another six months before the maiden sod is turned on the $73 million Macksville Hospital build, but this week was the first time the project felt palpable when Local Health dignitaries met with local Member Melinda Pavey and Nambucca councillors for the official announcement of the hospital’s base beside the new Pacific Highway.
Dec 14: Chairs with flair have appeared on the Valla landscape in the last month, courtesy of a couple of local design students.
Dec 14: Local Federal MP Luke Hartsuyker called on the National Australia Bank to keep the doors of its Nambucca Heads branch open permanently.
Dec 21: Rumours were flying about a proposed cricket game on the old Macksville Bridge as the first 14 kilometres of the 20-kilometre Warrell Creek to Nambucca Heads section of the Pacific Highway upgrade opened to dual-carriageway traffic— leaving Macksville footloose and fancy free.
Dec 21: Roads Minister Melinda Pavey made an announcement that stirred a spontaneous and emotional round of applause from the crowd gathered for the official opening—the new bridge is to be named the Phillip Hughes Bridge.
