Whingeing achieves nothing
I take issue with noisy complaints to CCN about odours emanating from Bateau Bay treatment works (CCN 420). Council has indicated it has commenced works costing $35M and these will…
I take issue with noisy complaints to CCN about odours emanating from Bateau Bay treatment works (CCN 420). Council has indicated it has commenced works costing $35M and these will…
In the article Coasties are recycling champs (CCN 428), local MPs Liesl Tesch and Adam Crouch both praise the NSW Government’s Return and Earn scheme for its great contribution to…
I fully support Bob Hall’s comments regarding Wyoming Rd South (CCN 425). As a rate-paying resident for 50-plus years, I recall in the late 70s signing a petition for a…
During Central Coast Council’s copious free time perhaps they could do something about the wasp nest located just under the seat of the bus shelter on the south-west corner of…
Mr Castellari (“No thanks to nuclear” CCN 429) could very well be right. We are very nuclear-phobic, and that is politics and we might never have any nuclear electric power…
“Mingy Minns” has done it yet again. It seems like taking taxpayers’ money, and therefore support, for the older generation and those who are dying makes for easy pickings. I…
The Opposition has identified two locations on the Central Coast for its nuclear power plant proposal, Eraring and Bayswater. An excellent way to ensure that Labor is returned at the…
This year we have the council election in September. In conjunction with this, we also have the local referendum about reducing the number of councillors from 15 to nine and…
The Council should not allow a McDonald’s restaurant at Toukley. The traffic is already congested with the school, Aldi, Service NSW and the coffee shop right near the traffic lights….
On Sunday, February 25, at around 5-5.30pm my daughter and her friend were snorkelling at Spoon Bay and both got caught in the rip and almost drowned. The friend’s mother…
Even before the NRMA had a chance to intervene, the local community raced to our rescue recently. We were out for a drive in our newly-acquired MX5, coasting down Empire…
Federal and State parliamentarians state consistently they cannot be removed from their elected positions because in a democracy they are elected by their constituents. Fifteen democratically elected Central Coast councillors…
Good news: Council is upgrading 11 play areas around the Central Coast. Yay. Bad news: Council is NOT providing any shade at any of these areas. Boo. Email, Feb 26Phil…
One solution to Peter Blyth’s conundrum (Trend toward cashless disturbing, CCN 426) is to find a GP who bulk-bills. I know that it can be difficult, but now that they…
When is security at Bateau Bay shopping centre and the Police going to actually do something about the teenage delinquents riding e-scooters up and down the bus service area? Will…
Is Terrigal the wettest place on the Central Coast? As an old Bureau weatherman I’m always interested in the rainfall differences we experience across the Central Coast and on occasion…
I was surprised by the story on moving a 477-tonne transformer from Victoria to NSW (Giant transformer on 1,000km trip to Colongra, CCN 425), not just because of the massive…
The trial game debacle that was Souths versus Manly at Gosford Stadium on Sunday, February 11, was a travesty to both the game and the thousands of rugby league supporters…
I find the current movement toward cashless quite disturbing as I am experiencing one of the repercussions. My doctor’s practice has signs up announcing their change to a cashless business…
I am heartened by David Harris’ comment in the article “The biggest challenges we face this year” (CCN 425) in respect of the upcoming council elections in September. He said…