Pool Complex Still Jewel in Crown for Byron Bay
THE BYRON BAY Swimming pool, partly financed by a kind of community spirit no longer evident in the Bay, is still a jewel in the town’s crown.
THE BYRON BAY Swimming pool, partly financed by a kind of community spirit no longer evident in the Bay, is still a jewel in the town’s crown.
VOICE of BYRON regular, Ron North, shared these terrific shots taken at Byron Bay Public School in the late 1950s.
VOICE of BYRON regular, Billy Nichols, calls for help with information after his Jack Russel terrier was attacked by what appeared to be an unleashed Irish Wolfhound on the weekend.
Billy says, “At the Sunday Sustainable Bakery this morning an off-leash Grey Irish Wolfhound (I’m pretty sure this is the breed or similar) attacked our Jack Russell, suddenly and unprovoked.
Binna Burra-based drug and alcohol rehab centre The Buttery is a major beneficiary of a $3m boost to North Coast Primary Health Network services announced on Wednesday.
The Buttery’s roving community rehabilitation program, visiting Lismore, Byron Bay and Tweed Heads, will have its six-week program funded.
A ROW OF beachfront blocks in Byron Bay left empty for almost a decade could sell for more than $40 million.
It’s the last section of private beachfront land to be developed in Byron, where much of the coastline is National Park and Nature Reserve or Coastal Land zones.
ONE OF THE first things that grab the attention of visitors to the Byron Bay Services Club is the impressive dining experiences available to members and their guests.
BYRON BAY Community Centre recently published a terrific and insightful book titled No Fixed Abode – Stories from the streets around Byron Bay.
Profits from the sale of this book go towards the Byron Bay Community Benefit Fund, a local fund established to assist people in need in the Byron Bay community. Buy No Fixed Abode here.
BYRON SHIRE Council staff have failed in an attempt to force a Byron Bay residents group to supply membership and donor names and addresses through the courts – all without informing councillors.
It comes as Council were also unsuccessful in court on October 31 in recovering part of their $453,129.29 in legal costs from the Butler Street Community Network, who challenged Council’s bypass plans.
A BYRON BAY resident has told The Echo that Byron Shire Council staff have been unable to act on her complaints about her neighbours’ Airbnb activities, which she says are so intrusive she has had to buy earplugs.
‘I’m 71 years old and have been here 21 years,’ she told The Echo.
AROUND THIRTY years ago, these scenes of Jonson Street and the town of Byron Bay viewed from Reservoir Hill were published in Time & Tide under the heading “THE BAY TODAY: