Three Lucky $500 Cash Winners at the Byron Bay Services Club

Our three LUCKY WINNERS of the 3 x $500 Members’ Cash draw: Jacinta Buckley, Greg Kelly and Joy Taylor – CONGRATULATIONS!

THERE IS a whole bunch of exciting prizes to be won at Byron Bay Services Club every week.

Most days at the Club are filled with a range of fun activities and members and guests have a chance to WIN a host of BIG-Time promotions and Giveaways.

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Falls Festival: Bigger Acts, Bigger Crowds

Falls Festival Byron Bay
IT’S ALL happening at Falls Festival Byron Bay, where the crowd capacity is expanding in proportion with the lineup.

Get ready to froth harder than the whitewash at Main Beach, because six new acts have been added to the bill for the 2017/2018 event, with an eclectic batch of local legends — Wafia, Waax, West Thebarton, Manu Crooks, Alice Ivy and Party Dozen — joining the mammoth bill for the NYE-straddling party.

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Lithgow-tech: Solar Powered Train to Run Byron Bay Circuit

STRAPPED IN: Cranes lift the train into place at Eskbank Station. Pictured are Byron Bay Railroad’s Robert Jarvis, Lithgow Railway Workshop’s Nathan Carter, Tim Elderton and Anthony Rappard (right side) with Lachland Valley Railway driver Jason McIntyre. Photo: KIRSTY HORTON.

PEOPLE PASSING by Lithgow’s Eskbank Station on Tuesday, October 31, had a chance to see a very rare sight: A train being lifted onto the bed of a waiting truck.

The train itself is a world first. It is the very first solar powered commuter train. It is on its way to Byron Bay to serve as a commuter train on a 3km tourist circuit from the bay itself to north Byron.

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FROM FACEBOOK: Why Not Adopt Traffic Lights in Byron Bay?

Photo: Daily Advertiser.

VOICE of BYRON regular, Ian Blair Hamilton, shares some urgently needed thoughts regarding the adoption of traffic lights in Byron Bay, instead of roundabouts. 

Ian, a long-term resident of some 45 years, was a valued Letters to the Editor contributor in The Byron News and was part of the Byron Bay Chamber of Commerce Tourist Promotions committee which played a major part in making Byron Bay the place it is today. But that’s another story.

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Politics Causes Greens Split Over Byron Bay Bus Interchange at the Dump

Byron Bay market at Butler Street Reserve. Photo: EchoNet Daily.

IN A SAD display of lack of local knowledge, two Greens political factions have come to blows over moving the Byron bus stop to the Butler Street Reserve

Greens Ballina MP Tamara Smith claims there has been a ‘lack of public consultation’ regarding state government plans to place a bus interchange at the site of the Byron markets.

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Bluesfest Announces New Chief Operating Officer

Steve Romer, new COO of Bluesfest

AS BLUESFEST continues to gear up for its highly-anticipated 2018 edition, the Byron Bay festival has today announced the addition of new Chief Operating Officer, Steve Romer.

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