Is cash on track for trail – or will it run off the rails?
OPINION: THERE has been a virtual conga line of ministers turning up to tell us that a rail trail for the Northern Rivers is a good idea.
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OPINION: Northern Rivers accepts sharks as part of nature
ANYWHERE else in the country there would be calls for the shark involved in yesterday’s fatal attack at Byron Bay to be hunted down and killed.
OPINION: Young deaths cut even more deeply
WHENEVER anyone loses their life in a road accident it is a tragedy, but when they are especially young it cuts very deeply in a community.
The time has come: Let’s build a Northern Rivers rail trail
THE Northern Star is strongly urging its readership to back a proposal to build a Rail Trail along the disused Casino to Murwillumbah rail line.
OPINION: In the regions poor and rich alike have to drive
I UNDERSTAND one of Treasurer Joe Hockey’s chief advisers recently purchased a property in the hinterland of Byron Bay.
OPINION: Nimbin deserves empathy and support in wake of fire
NIMBIN’S heritage has been gutted by fire and some people want to make jokes about it.
Offer to buy Lismore airport came ‘out of the blue’
AN OFFER to buy the struggling Lismore Airport had come “out of the blue”, according to the city’s mayor, Jenny Dowell.
The best of the Blues
IT is hard to forget the image of Paul Simon standing on the stage at Bluesfest last year, alone under the spotlights, acoustic guitar in hand, picking out the chords to Sounds of Silence.
OPINION: Train’s a nice dream but it’s time to wake up
I CAN understand people wanting the Murwillumbah to Casino rail line to be reopened, even though the cost of reinstating the line has been put at $900 million.
Little school wins big award
FOR a school with a student population of 41, Empire Vale carried all before it at the Newspapers in Education awards yesterday.
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