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Check your water bill

IF YOU live in the Ballina or Byron Shire you may need to check your water bill as errors have been identified in the billing process.
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Splendour returns to Byron

Splendour In The Grass has been held at Woodfordia for the past two years.

ORGANISERS of Splendour In The Grass have announced they are planning to bring the event back to Byron Bay this year.
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Inghams add to job-cuts reasons

INGHAM has outlined additional reasons for cutting 80 jobs from its chicken processing plant at Byron Bay.
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Morning blaze destroys business

Firefighters and police at the scene of the blaze in Keen Street, Lismore.

UP to 40 firefighters battled a blaze which destroyed a business in Keen Street, Lismore, early this morning.

New GM has a strong record

RICHMOND Valley Council has revealed the identity of its new general manager - John Walker - a Sydneysider with a long history in local government.
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Byron $17m sports complex welcomed

The main building and entrance at the new Byron Region Sport and Cultural Complex.

YEARS of complaints about inadequate sports facilities in Byron Shire will be consigned to history when the Byron Regional Sport and Cultural Complex opens.
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Decision music to Tim's ears

MUSICIAN Tim Freedman may yet win his battle to use his Broken Head property as a wedding reception venue following a change of heart from Byron councillors.
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Something out of the box

HE'S MADE cabinets fit for kings and queens and furniture that has been exhibited at art galleries and houses of parliament.
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Mother-daughter art show

Mother and daughter artists Maggie and Katie Cross prepare for their exhibition opening in Ballina.

ARTWORKS describing a personal sense of place, but in two different perspectives, are to be exhibited by a Ballina mother and her Lismore daughter.

Remembering our brush with royalty

A young Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, landed at Evans Head and were escorted to Lismore this time 58 years ago.
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Home is where the heart aches

OVERWHELMED: Christine Anderson going through the paper work in relation to her overdue council rates.

INVALID pensioner Christine Anderson's nightmare battle with the Lismore City Council is not over.
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Bananacoast-Truss tiff continues

THE war of words between Bananacoast Credit Union and Federal Nationals leader Warren Truss continues.
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Program promotes smarter energy use

PAGE MP Janelle Saffin has encouraged local councils, businesses and community organisations to take advantage of a new package of energy efficiency programs.
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Group given 48 hours to find money

ENVIRONMENT group Rainforest Rescue has only 48 hours to raise more than $5000 if the next phase in its plan to save the endangered cassowary is to come off.
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Puppy powers to full health

RSPCA Regional inspector Alistair Hills with four-month-old Roxy who is now four-and-half-months old and well on the road to recovery after she was found at Woodenbong tip after being bashed, covered in sump oil and dumped in a garbage bin.

A SMALL pup found more than two months ago among garbage at the Woodenbong tip after surviving a savage bashing now has a name and in about a week a home too.
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Clubs join to help addicts

NSW Clubs offering self-exclusion for problem gamblers are implementing the multi-venue self-exclusion program from ClubSAFE.

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Ulong Public School	$112.93	1
Sherwood Cliffs School Glenreagh	$79.80	2
Upper Orara Public School	$36.36	3
Kororo Public School	$33.42	4
Karangi Public School	$25.18	5