VOICE of BYRON regular, Melissa Darnley, shared this historic event about the opening of the new North Room Museum at the Cape Byron Lighthouse.
Melissa says, “A fabulous morning at Cape Byron for the opening of new North Room Museum exhibit titled “Lighthouse Keeping : A Partnership” to honour the lives of our lighthouse keepers, their wives and families.
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.
