BYRON SHIRE Council is warning food-related businesses to be aware it is not involved with a person reporting to be selling advertising in a food health and safety journal.
Council has been informed that a man approached a local business and tried to sell the owner an advertising subscription, claiming he worked closely with the Council.
VOICE of BYRON regular, Patricia Warren, shared her thoughts on how Byron Shire’s new Community Solutions Panel might examine parking solutions and more.
Patricia says, “I went to the first session of the Community Jury 7.3.18. at Council Chambers as an observer only.
A WOMAN facing charges of assaulting police after an alleged incident at Main Beach, Byron Bay will contest the charges against her.
Voice of Byron and KWIMABB regular, Dougall Pennefather, shared this brilliant pencil sketch from when the lighthouse was only 7 years old.
Dougall says, “This is a sketch of Cape Byron and the lighthouse (only 7 years old) that my great grandmother Mabel Anne Rose Pennefather drew on the 1st of March, 1908.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT will be the key to the development of Byron Shire Council’s new Pest Animal Management Plan.
Byron Shire Mayor, Simon Richardson, said pest animals like wild dogs have a terrible impact on the natural environment as well as the economic, social and cultural values of people in the shire.
NOT ONLY is Byron Shire a popular holiday destination but in recent years it is also one of ‘the’ places to get married.
The beauty of the hinterland has seen a significant increase in rural weddings and this is having an impact on neighbours, particularly when it comes to noise and traffic.
IN YESTERDAY’S Voice of Byron article we covered New South Wales MLC Catherine Cusack’s attack on the Byron Bay Community Centre.
She alleged, under parliamentary privilege, that the Byron Bay Community Centre “provides almost no services.”
TO IMPROVE the flow of traffic and increase access to parking spaces, Council is implementing revised parking management schemes across the Shire’s villages, including Brunswick Heads, Bangalow and Mullumbimby, before Easter.
Parking signage will be installed in early March, with new parking restrictions coming into effect by Monday 26 March, 2018.
BYRON SHIRE Council has received 15 submissions for its BioEnergy Project, seeking to utilise cutting edge technology to produce clean energy from biomass waste.
“We now have some very exciting and innovative opportunities on the table and the important thing for the community to understand is that no fuel for the operation of these bioenergy facilities will come from native forests,” Byron Shire Mayor, Simon Richardson said.
NSW Government MLC Catherine Cusack has attacked Byron Shire Council, one of its Councillors, and members of the Byron Bay Community Centre under parliamentary privilege.
Byron Shire Councillor Paul Spooner has released a statement refuting Cusack’s allegations regarding the Community Centre.