Community

Almost 12 months after Bangalow’s bowling club closed its doors, the community’s efforts to understand what happened have reached the NSW Supreme Court, writes Sally Schofield.

Pearces Creek Hall’s annual Harvest Produce Auction outbids urban ‘convenience’ by a country mile, writes Craig Patch-Taylor.

John Singh, proprietor of Punjab Stud & Byron Bay Pork at Coorabell, travelled to Sydney on the last weekend of August to attend the Australian Sikh Awards for Excellence 2026, having been nominated as a finalist in the Agriculture category. Farming and growing pigs in the Byron Shire and Northern NSW for 50 years now, John is an unwavering advocate…

Gabby Le Brun sits down with Deb Hunt, founder of Support for New Mums, a volunteer-led service providing free at-home support for new mums.

With the Expression of Interest process over and the future of the Bowlo still unresolved, Save Bangalow Bowlo explains why legal action is being considered and how it could help create a pathway back to community ownership. 

Greg ‘Nashy’ Nash has been running the ANZAC Day Two-Up School at the pub, the Bowlo, and now the Showgrounds, for more than two decades. Byron Leeworthy finds out more.

For those of us who have watched Bangalow Theatre Company (BTC) grow over the years – from COVID-inspired roving pop-up events to risk-taking contemporary works – there has always been a sense that something special is happening here. But their latest foray hits different. When Australian composer, performer and writer Eddie Perfect – the Tony-nominated creator of Broadway’s Beetlejuice the…

In a huge win for the Bangalow community, Byron Shire Council has unanimously supported the recommendations of a Heritage Assessment recognising the Bangalow Bowling Club’s social, cultural and architectural value. While the formal listing process still has steps to complete, the motion marks an important public acknowledgment: the Bowlo is more than a building. It is a place of continuity…

I don’t remember the first time I felt unsafe. Maybe it was walking home from school and sensing a stranger’s stare from an unfamiliar car. Maybe it was as a teen, learning to hold my keys between my fingers like claws, just in case. Certainly by my 20s, when the phone calls to friends while walking home alone at night…

Seb Stockdale, 20-year-old son of Stockpot Kitchen founders Jen and Graeme Stockdale is battling rare leukemia. The family is calling on fellow young adults to get tested as a potential lifesaving blood donor.

For 115 years, the Bangalow Bowling and Sports Club was a constant in our community. You’d know a face, find a seat, and settle into conversation. It didn’t matter who you were. Everyone belonged. So, when the club shut its doors abruptly earlier this year, no community notice, no public consultation – just a sign and a visit from the…

A lot of Bangalow residents may not know who Anne McClelland is, but to those on the Bangalow Show Committee, she is a saving grace and one of the reasons that the Show is such a great success year after year, writes Danielle Mathie.