SUNDAY 3rd July marked the day when Byron Bayites got a taste of what’s to come over next summer. Traffic congestion between the Pass and the town centre appeared to be as bad as it’s ever been.
Right in the middle of winter. Locals can only imagine what’s to come once the Summer holiday season arrives.
There many comments about Byron Bay’s traffic congestion on Facebook overnight.
Bacon may have the ability to prolong your life, according to a recent study by researchers from ETH Zurich. Well, kind of.
Byron shire’s general manager Ken Gainger has urged locals to look into tapping the potential of Byron Bay’s ‘unloved’ rail corridor for community use, while future proofing it for a return of a rail service.
Mr Gainger wants locals to ‘reimagine a space and take it from unloved and unlock its potential for community use’.
The GM said that ‘in the heart of the Byron Bay town centre, sits a strip of land that could foster creativity, provide a spot to rest, a place to have fun and become a launching pad for emerging local businesses’.
What is it about the obsession Melbourne’s well-heeled have for Byron Bay’s high-end holiday home market?
That fixation continued this week when former professional AFL player of the 1970s Allan Sinclair sold his Wategos holiday house, Wattai, for $5.6 million to another Melburnian.
THERE was a happy ending for a very young humpback whale which was stranded at Seven Mile Beach at Lennox Head yesterday.
ORRCA (Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia) reported on its Facebook page that “lots of wonderful people worked very hard to re-float and release the calf as there was a pod of humpback whales just offshore”.
The bid by some Byron councillors to delay the controversial Coastal Zone Management Plan going to the NSW State Government for approval has failed with council staff deeming the motion to re-commit to the vote as having expired at the close of Wednesday’s meeting.
The CZMP has been forwarded to the Minister.
The controversial Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) for Byron Shire was in doubt after a dramatic last minute vote at Wednesday’s council meeting failed to re-commit to approve the plan.
After giving Australia a taste of the EP with singles Break my Fall and Every Summer, the full released is packed with catchy hooks and the band’s signature pop-infused rock elements.
The band was formed in mid-2013, but began as an acoustic duo between Matthew Reisinger and Michael Trapp.
A NORTH Coast resident has accused his local council’s new animal control officer of going too far by issuing $580 fines “left, right and centre” with no discretion.
Byron Bay resident Damian Moses described the behaviour as “bizarre” and “ridiculous”.
Byron Shire now has a new easy way to dispose of household problem waste items and help reduce the impact on the environment and increase resource recovery.
Opened today at the Byron Resource Recovery Centre by the Hon. Ben Franklin MLC, was the new Community Recycling Centre.
It’s a FREE service for household problem wastes that can’t be collected via council kerbside waste and recycling collection services and if incorrectly disposed of can cause significant harm to the environment.
