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16 May 12 | The “A Current Affair” segment gave $347 to Brian Wenzel – which is one week of pension only at single rate without additives - coupled pensioners receive $285 including cost-of-living per week each, and about $265 after removing the cost of living allowance - to equate it with the amount given in ACA.
16 May 12 | An open letter to all those who’ve bought a Sunbeam pizza oven
16 May 12 | There was a recent reporting on 9/5/12 about the proposed shire-wide polling on the issue of the Pambula hospital.
16 May 12 | My apologies, everyone. Referring to my letter submitted last week on climate change, I realised a decimal fraction was incorrect.
16 May 12 | The Wanatta tip is to be built near to me. I have attended public meetings, written a formal objection to the council and the Regional Joint Planning Panel.
16 May 12 | Thanks to Michelle Pettigrove and the Merimbula News Weekly (9/5/12) for bringing the sewage on the beach story out.
16 May 12 | I heard Charles High, along time Merimbula local he professed to be, on the ABC Radio the other morning stating that the brown algae in Merimbula Bay is not caused by the sewage effluent that is discharged into the bay.
16 May 12 | I have been asked to say something sensible about photosynthesis. For a start, it is the most important process on this earth for all its living creatures.
02 May 12 | Open letter to Matt Dawson Satellite Project Director NBN Co
02 May 12 | Neville Hughes (MNW 25/4/12) injects a level of sophistication rarely found in a humble regional newspaper.
02 May 12 | It never ains on Anzac Day! When asked if there was a contingency plan in case of rain, I said “no”, in the 38 years I had been involved with the Anzac Day Services, they have never been interrupted by rain.
02 May 12 | My final letter - I hope! Don't want to hog the paper! Just wanted to refer readers to the A Current Affair programme on Anzac Day (Lest We Forget) with Brian Wenzel: aca.ninemsn.com.au
02 May 12 | In response to Lynne Koerbin’s letter to the Merimbula News Weekly dated 25 April, I wish to thank Lynne Koerbin of Merimbula and former manager of Bega Valley Community Health based at Bega District Hospital for her concern on the state of my health which I normally treat as private.
02 May 12 | In the face of impending climate change, keeping Planet Earth an environmentally safe home for humanity and all life forms must surely take precedence over all other political and economic objectives of the present generation of Australians and their elected governments.
02 May 12 | I write in response to South East Region Conservation Alliance (SERCA) secretary Lois Katz’s letter printed in MNW on April 25.  | CommentsComments (2)
02 May 12 | So we are now told that Peter Slipper is an ordained Minister in the Anglican Church. He was described by the Head of the Anglican Church Archbishop Hepworth as a "complex man of faith".
02 May 12 | I would like to know where I can send a letter to voice my concerns on the closure of Pambula District Hospital. I had the unfortunate circumstances of requiring Pambula hospital in the middle of the night on two occasions whilst holidaying on the Sapphire Coast.
02 May 12 | Matthew Nott, who has been the local presenter of Flannery/Kelly/Combet/Gillard/IPCC themes for years, now publicly states, “The cost of living is rising all the time, putting increasing pressure on families and households ...
02 May 12 | The suggestion that the establishment by NBN Co of a satellite ground station in Wolumla is "of no local benefit" is untrue, as is the suggestion that the approvals process is far from transparent (Merimbula News Weekly, 25/4/12).
02 May 12 | As a Back Lake resident and a local ratepayer, I am once again amazed at the Bega Valley Shire Council's late decision to open the entrance of the lake in times of severe flooding.
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