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Jack Evans Boat Harbour, Tweed Heads. Photo courtesy designerdecks.com.au Funding provided by the NSW Government under its Crown Reserves Improvement Fund will see more than $360,000 granted to a range of local improvement projects for Crown land reserves and community facilities in the region. Member for Tweed Geoff Provest said the funding is to maintain and upgrade local reserves as well as facilities located on them. ‘This funding will see infrastructure upgrades to local reserves as well as maintenance of reserves through noxious weed and pest control.’ Local projects being funded include: $138,790 to replace sections of a timber boardwalk and cycleway at Jack Evans Boat Harbour Reserve with low maintenance composite materials and paving, and design changes to increase accessibility and amenity and provide more seating and shade areas; $118,570 for structural repairs and improved accessibility to the Pottsville Environment Park building, including upgrades t ....
The Echo titled A short history of our rail line debate is anything but. It’s full of personal assumptions, rumours, guestimates, and lacks any research or accuracy. ( Echo 13/1) There’s no comparison with the slow, once a day XPT train service with a light commuter train service providing public transport for locals and six million tourists. They are very different, as are the costs and benefits, but the writer doesn’t bother with this vital fact. The claim that the community was slow to react to the Casino to Murwillumbah (C-M) branch line’s closure, ‘probably because of the branch lines trifling impact’ is contrary to all the evidence and shows the writer has no idea what he’s talking about, or is being dishonest. ....
Advertisement Thousands of Sydneysiders remain locked out of Victoria despite their local area not recording a case of coronavirus for a month and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian continues to express frustration and confusion over the government’s traffic light system. Ms Berejiklian said there was no medical reason justifying the Victorian government’s border restrictions with Sydney, as 10 local government areas remain ‘red zones’. Premier Gladys Berejiklian at the site of the new Tweed Valley Hospital, in northern NSW, on Tuesday. Credit:Louise Kennerley A person is not allowed to enter Victoria if they have been in a red zone within 14 days of their arrival. ....
Arthur Boyd, Shoalhaven as the River Styx c1996, oil on canvas. Boyd Family Collection Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul will feature at the Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre from January 8 to February 28, 2021. The touring exhibition from the Bundanon Trust explores a lifetime of landscape paintings by renowned Australian artist Arthur Boyd. Curated by Barry Pearce the exhibition is drawn principally from Bundanon Trust s own collection of the artist s work. Presenting a number of never-before-seen works created by Boyd as a teenager, the exhibition offers the first in depth look at the artist s powerful early grasp of the landscape as a subject. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only FREEING up traffic around the Tweed Heads health services and reopening the Ducat St checkpoint are at the top of a list of concerns for the Tweed Chamber of Commerce. Tweed Heads streets have descended into traffic mayhem the past two days since the reintroduction of Queensland s hard border closure. The closures are similar to what was initially put in place in March and not the most recent system from November. TCC board member John Weaver said it was disappointing the Queensland government knew what had worked before and failed to implement the measures in a peak holiday period. ....