Local News
17 Mar 10 | Greater Southern Area Health Service (GSAHS) has repeated its warning to residents and visitors to cover up to avoid mosquito bites.
17 Mar 10 | Approval has been received by Bega Valley Shire Council (BVSC)from the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government for the second round of stimulus funding that will allow the remaining work to continue on six projects across the shire including the foreshore renovation on Merimbula’s Market Street.
17 Mar 10 | Coroner receives police brief on fatality
Police will claim that a deadly mix of a speed record attempt by a car load of teenagers at high speed on a wet road in a defective vehicle led to the fatal accident at Little Bellbird Hill, Eden, on January 31.
17 Mar 10 | Pambula Show Society president, Ron Grealy, has put out a desperate call for help with the annual show saying that unless the society gets more committee members, the show can’t go on.
17 Mar 10 | A motel room in the South Seas Motel, has been “destroyed” and the facade of the In the Mix bakery both in Merimbula Drive, Merimbula, were smashed and equipment damaged after an 85-year-old man took off at high speed while trying to move his car to make way for a mini bus.
10 Mar 10 | Bega Valley Shire Council will ask the Greater Southern Area Health Service to return all services, including maternity services, to Pambula Hospital until the proposed new Bega regional hospital opens.
10 Mar 10 | Pambula Cemetery has been sadly neglected since the volunteers who looked after it for many years resigned last September, former Pambula Cemetery Committee president Gordon Radford said.
10 Mar 10 | The Wyndham community swelled on Sunday as more than 400 people from the town and neighbouring localities converged on the sports ground to rally against logging in the nearby Yurammie State Forest compartments.
10 Mar 10 | Seven years ago, Eden Marine High’s Mike Maxworthy, in response to what he saw as a need for boys in the school, started the Bike Mentoring Program.
10 Mar 10 | The Pambula Aquatic Centre Inc (PACI) has been forced to scrap the planned widening of the Pambula pool to contain a potential cost overrun of some half a million dollars including council headworks charges.
03 Mar 10 | The owners of Meribula’s Gloria Jean’s Coffees franchise cleaned out the premises last Saturday week and left the shop in a damaged state.
03 Mar 10 | A new review indicates that smoking is an important risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, contradicting well-publicised earlier research that had suggested that smoking might actually prevent the condition.
03 Mar 10 | Figures released last week by the State Government on the time taken by the Bega Valley Shire Council to process Development Applications were wrong, council’s group manager planning and environment Andrew Woodley said.
03 Mar 10 | Steep hillsides earmarked for logging have enraged environmental groups who recently met to discuss Forests NSW’s imminent logging in the Wyndham, Tathra, Tanja, Wapengo and Bega areas.
03 Mar 10 | In the dispute over the Yurammie Special Prescription Zone (YSPZ), community conservation group, Yurangalo Inc has called on Forests NSW to halt all preparations for logging in the five compartments on the western edge of Yurammie State Forest.
03 Mar 10 | Wyndham residents and those relying on Myrtle Creek as a source of their water are asking people to attend a rally on Sunday March 7 to protest proposed logging in the water catchment area.
03 Mar 10 | A proposed new smoking policy from Bega Valley Shire Council that could see smoking banned on beaches, playing fields and wharves has already been critised by several councillors as being too wide ranging.
24 Feb 10 | The NSW Government has announced that council rates will be pegged at 2.6 per cent for 2010/11.
24 Feb 10 | Investigations continue
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