Editorial

Wyndham protest issues reflect a wider problem

10 Mar 10 | The issues faced by the Wyndham residents as they do battle to protect the integrity of their water supply are a reflection of a much larger problem.

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Nothing good to be said for smoking

03 Mar 10 | I am a reformed smoker, one of that band of vehement crusaders who can self-righteously scorn those who smoke.

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Subdued picture emerges

24 Feb 10 | It will be interesting to read the population figures for the Bega Valley Shire in the next Census due to be held on August 9, 2011.

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A sweeter lullaby we’d be hard pressed to find

10 Feb 10 | The sound of steady rain falling on the roof accompanied by the croaking frogs was the sweetest of lullabies that residents in the Bega Valley Shire could have heard on Thursday night after one of the longest and most sustained periods of dry weather in the shire’s history.

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Let not death and injury be in vain

05 Feb 10 | We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the family of Kylie Poyner and to the parents of the injured youngsters our earnest hopes that they recover from this tragic and terrible accident.

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Our Say

27 Jan 10 | Ingenious council at work When it comes to extracting dollars from the ratepayers the Bega Valley Shire Council is truly ingenious.

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Is the council barking mad?

20 Jan 10 | The proposed Sapphire Aquatic Centre at Pambula has had a real battle in the past to secure the Bega Valley Shire Council’s support for the project. In 2009 the Pambula Aquatic Centre Inc. (PACi) appeared to make some headway with the council and it was confident that the council had committed to the development of the project. However today that confidence may seem misplaced.

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A Woolworths shire

16 Dec 09 | When you think of the Bega Valley Shire, don’t think tourism, don’t think cheese, don’t think timber, think Woolworths. Replace the shire logo with the Woolies apple and the picture will be complete. |

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The importance of speaking out

09 Dec 09 | Speaking out about injustice, dishonesty, unethical behaviour particularly among those to whom we entrust aspects of our lives and rely on to make the best decisions in our interests, has become more rare.

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Chamber charges its batteries and puts

25 Nov 09 | It is as though the Merimbula Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism (MACCAT) has taken a big swig of a high powered energy drink and this has pumped up its revs and quickened its pulse turning it from a duck (no offence meant as we know the executive works tirelessly behind the scenes) into a dynamo.

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From the Editor

18 Nov 09 | Council’s financial wizardry The Bega Valley Shire Council has defied the odds and returned a budget surplus in all three of its funds in what has been a fiscally fraught year punctuated with potholes for the unwary.

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Our Say

11 Nov 09 | A shift in strategy The Save the Pambula Hospital campaign has been revived with a shift in strategy and the embrace of a new focus.

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Sapphire Coast Tourism must survive

04 Nov 09 | Sapphire Coast Tourism has struggled to survive over the past 12 months and if the Bega Valley Shire Council had not thrown it a lifeline at a Special Meeting of the council on Tuesday its demise would have been inevitable.

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Commonsense prevails

28 Oct 09 | Merimbula’s Australia Day Citizenship ceremony is secure after the Minister restored the right of deputy mayors to officiate at citizenship ceremonies.

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Bureaucracy gone mad

21 Oct 09 | We can just picture it - a bureaucrat sitting at his desk in the Department of Immigration and Citizenship staring at a blank computer screen and wondering how to fill in his day.

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Alien has the potential to metamorphose into an asset

14 Oct 09 | Ocean algal blooms and sewage effluent have caused passions to run high in this community fuelled by strong speculation that the effluent discharged into Merimbula Bay fed the algal bloom.

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The fulfilment of a dream

07 Oct 09 | The turning of the first sod in the development of the Sapphire Coast Aquatic Centre (Pambula pool upgrade) is a true moment of joy for the community, which has striven so hard to get the project off the ground in its quest to provide a public recreational facility unavailable to shire residents.

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