A little support can indeed make a lot of difference
Forum – The number of Australians living with dementia is close to half a million – a number that is set to double in the next 25 years – with…
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Cannot repair road properly as it was in too poor a condition
Forum – I live on Railway Rd, Warnervale, and have been complaining to Central Coast Council about the state of this thoroughfare for a number of years. The answer, if…
Planned retreat is well established throughout the world
Forum – The claim by Godfrey Franz about the Wamberal seawall boondoogle in “Planned retreat is a dumb unproven theory” Coast Community Chronicle, September 9, that, “if we stand aside…
Frustrated with trend to advertising litter?
Forum – Am I alone in my frustration at the latest trend for advertising material by supermarkets and other organisations to now appear on the ground at the foot of…
Use of bikes in parks is not black and white
Forum It is with increasing anxiety that I have been watching the developments between the mountain bike and national park community groups. (“Police investigate tyre spikes on national park trail,…
Sea wall saga
Forum The residents of the Coast who believe (in) building a sea wall at Wamby beach have got their heads in the sand (what’s left of it). If you think…
Well done CCN for coverage of Councillors’ achievements
Forum Coast Community News is to be congratulated for its coverage of the “achievements” of our councillors over the past three years (CCN, Sep 11). This will be extremely valuable…
Put political point-scoring aside for the sake of a long-term plan
Forum – I find Debra O’Neill’s comments (CCN September 4) with regard to development puzzling and presume she was searching for anything to criticise the Federal Member Lucy Wicks. Neither…
Courtesy and compromise needed in MTB debate
Forum – It is with increasing anxiety that I have been watching the developments between the mountain bike/national park community groups. I fear that views on how we use the…
Consider yourself lucky
Forum – In response to Danny Muller’s entry in the Forum of edition 204 regarding the pension, consider yourself blessed that you live in Australia. While I agree that some…
Bouquet for council workers
Forum – I just had council out to fix a drainage problem that I had, and what a nice bunch of fellas they are. They took every care with the…
Waste recycling facility is too close to everything
Forum – What on earth are they thinking? A waste recycling facility to crush 99,000 tonnes of concrete, bricks, tiles etc, per year, operating six days per week, just up…
Can’t we build our own trains?
Forum – The best trains being built are Australian, built in the Newcastle factory at Goninan’s near Broadmeadow, Newcastle. So I ask why is any government buying trains made overseas…
Blatant lack of respect
Forum – Yesterday afternoon (Sunday, September 14), my husband and I parked in a disabled reserved spot, as we have a permit to do so, at Coles Toukley. The car…
The abandoned supermarket trolley problem
Forum I would like to take the opportunity to express a bug bear of mine – the continual theft and dumping of supermarket trolleys. Every day, we see some dumped…
Community should not bear responsibility for beachfront properties
Forum It is good to see a glimmer of common sense on the question of waterfront properties (“Greens advocate for planned retreat along beachfront”, CCN 258). Leaving aside the issue…
Build a sea wall
Forum Planned Retreat is just about the dumbest unproven theory since the flat earth society actually existed. These galoops ignore the facts and the science – we have thousands and…
Time to protect the Coast’s premier natural asset
Forum Coastal Open Space System, or COSS as it is lovingly referred to by many locals, is a large network of reserves and bushland around our ridges, down into the…
Planned retreat is a dumb unproven theory
Forum I write in reference to Coast Community Chronicle September 2, page 6, “Planned retreat is the best way to combat coastal erosion – Greens”. Planned retreat is just about…
Pensioners are fortunate that they didn’t get a reduction
Forum As a pensioner, I sympathise with Danny Mullen (Pensioners missed out the most”, Coast Community Chronicle 204, September 2) that he didn’t get his meagre pension increase this year….