Community

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.

Byron Leeworthy meets two of the driving forces behind the Bangalow Community Pantry.

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.

For the newcomer to town, the scope and size of the annual two-day Bangalow Show can be overwhelming. Here, Christobel Munson attempts to point out some particular highlights – though nothing beats a thorough advance reading of the comprehensive and densely packed Pavilion Schedule (listing every event happening inside the A&I Hall, known as the Pavilion for the duration of…

It seems likely that Anouska Gammon was predestined to a career in the spotlight, even if her childhood was spent on a Northern Rivers farm in a small, close-knit community, running barefoot, climbing trees, riding to school on horseback, and volunteering at the Surf Lifesaving club at the weekend. Those country inclinations, including a robust sense of community, are still…

It was a feeling of deja vu (and not the good kind) for the Bangalow community as word spread around the village on Friday 24 October that the beloved Bowling Club had closed, effective immediately. Over 80 people gathered at the Moller Pavilion, Bangalow at short notice to have a say, ask questions and volunteer in many capacities for essential…

Shaping up to be one of the many highlights of the Bangalow Show is the Big Bang Bite competition, being held at the Village Green at 2.30pm on Saturday, 15 November. Christobel Munson gets the lowdown from contestants, already in training for this attention grabbing event.