July 6: Bin chicken, trash vulture, tip turkey: the Australian white ibis is the protected species Aussies love to hate. The foul fowl have just chalked up another reason to be loathed as Macksville’s Dawkins Park lake gets the thumbs down in water quality tests. The sheer number of ibis populating the island and pooing in the lake is overpowering the ability of pumps to turn the water over. The ibis will be surveyed after the breeding season ends to see if the nest and egg removal has worked.
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July 6: With the ever increasing popularity of soccer comes a new and exciting variation of the “round ball” game which is huge overseas - footgolf - and it’s coming to Australia’s only island golf course at Nambucca Heads on Sunday.
July 13: Tony Didio is ‘going to need a bigger boat’... Together with his sons Michael and Jason, the trio were jigging for bait about 100 metres from a popular surf spot when a great white emerged from the blue and “took a chomp at the boat” between Valla and Main Beach off Nambucca Heads.
July 13: Macksville now has its very own aged care training facility which is great news for locals wanting a career in one of the state’s largest growth industries.
July 20: Andrew Williams was the second person at the scene on Friday where a man was 'bent like a banana' while stuck upside down in the rocks on the V-Wall.
July 27: Former National Rugby League heavyweight Daine Laurie is in jail facing charges, including wounding with intent to murder, after two alleged shooting incidents at Nambucca Heads last year.
July 27: The Nambucca Roosters dominated over the weekend with all teams except the first grade doing damage to the Macksville Sea Eagles. But the club has been gaining metres off the field too by acting on their commitment to be ambassadors for cultural change in a grass-roots attempt to stamp out domestic and family violence in the community.