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After a decade down south studying and establishing her career as a prosthetist-orthotist, Camille Wiseman, 28, returned home to Bangalow earlier this year – via a 12-month sabbatical in Italy honing her formidable skills as a painter. Georgia Fox found out more.

Tricia Shantz has followed the success of her first book, Neverland – a social history tracing the arrival and cultural impact on Byron Bay of American and Australian surfers in the 1960s – with Musicland: When the music came to Byron 1974 to 1995. Here, she speaks with Christobel Munson about what she discovered from her fascinating interviews, primarily with…

Sometimes you meet young people who inspire hope that the world may land in safe hands after all. At just 14, Charlotte Burns already has a strongly developed sense of community, volunteering and leadership. She is one of 15 young people chosen from across Byron Shire to be part of a brand-new Byron Youth Council that will meet throughout 2026….

Beer, banter, barracking: Digby Hildreth discovers that chess can prove to be a fun night out.

Former Bangalow Post Mistress Joan Leeds swaps cheeky customer service banter for cranky comedy gold, writes Sally Schofield.

Bees are our best friends and closest allies, says self-confessed ‘flower girl’ Laodekia, who suggests we spend more time in their company. Digby Hildreth reports.

Three years after fire destroyed their Burringbar café, Elwood, Bangalow couple Jack and Sophia Deacon are back with their new coffee bar, Pour Good. Turns out that’s not even half of it, Georgia Fox discovered.

Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Pearces Creek: every few weeks, international and Australian musicians depart from their big city touring schedule to play a gig at a humble country hall nestled in the hills a short drive from Bangalow, Digby Hildreth reports.

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.

A little over four years ago, Bangalow teen Malik couldn’t play a note of music. This year he was selected to appear in an episode of the ABC’s reality television series The Piano, and last month performed in front of hundreds of people at the Terrace Park Soundshell in Brunswick Heads, in a concert to mark the arrival of a…

Few towns are lucky enough to have a local shopfront displaying works by artists represented in major public collections across the world, but that’s exactly the enviable position we Bangalowians have been in for nearly eight years now, thanks to Grant Rasheed and his gallery, Ninbella.

“Money is like manure,” says long-term Bangalow resident John Bennett. “It’s made to spread around; if you pile it up, it stinks.” Which is why the 82-year-old has devoted the past third of his life to ensuring money is spread around where it’s needed, an undertaking that earned him the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to the community…