Byron is booming, locals are fuming. James Weir parachutes into this celeb mecca – and discovers the biggest mystery about the town’s most famous resident.
Byron is booming, locals are fuming. James Weir parachutes into this celeb mecca – and discovers the biggest mystery about the town’s most famous resident.
News by James Weir  Nothing attracts rich white people like the Big Little Lies theme song. It s playing in a boutique kids toy store just off the main drag of Byron Bay while the owner talks about the tsunami of celebrities and wealthy city folk that has crashed onto the once-sleepy, surfy shire. If they re not the soul that s meant to be here, they get spat out and they end up going back to wherever it is they came from, Mel Sainsbury says about the newcomers who ve decided to not just visit the beach town but pull a Hemsworth by buying up, moving in, putting on a hemp shirt and calling it home.
Robeson-Wiggins-Hamilton corridor study evaluates pedestrian, bicyclist safety ×
The Princeton Council has accepted the long-awaited Paul Robeson-Wiggins-Hamilton corridor study, which seeks to make improvements to the corridor that would make it safer for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists.LEA KAHN/STAFF
The Princeton Council has accepted the long-awaited Paul Robeson-Wiggins-Hamilton corridor study, which seeks to make improvements to the corridor that would make it safer for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists.
While the Princeton Council “accepted” traffic consultant WSP’s report at its Jan. 27 meeting, Mayor Mark Freda said he wanted to make it clear that the council would not make any decisions on the report’s findings and recommendations at the meeting.