29/08/2008 | NOW that Field 1 of the proposed synthetic hockey fields at Bernie Regan Oval has been marked out, Shoal
haven City councillors should take the time to inspect the development for which they recently gave approval.
29/08/2008 | WAY back in March 1998 I had a letter published in your paper concerning the wisecracking and bad behaviour of councillors who treated their responsibilities with contempt. Unfortunately, although some faces have changed, the arrogance, rudeness and contempt has not.
29/08/2008 | WE should all be grateful to Greg Watson for his recent How NOT To Vote letter drop for the coming council elections.
29/08/2008 | I WAS present at the meet-the-candidates forum in Kangaroo Valley last Friday night.
29/08/2008 | CHILDREN are having vital operations cancelled or postponed in our hospitals for lack of funds and staff whilst at the same time the Federal Opposition is bent on overturning the luxury car tax.
27/08/2008 | I AM delighted to see the river bridge crossing, for the first time, becoming a local government issue in the Shoalhaven.
27/08/2008 | WHEN Councillor Kearney was asked about the sources of his campaign funds on 2ST last week, he responded that he didn’t know and left all that up to Mayor Watson’s wife, Robyn.
27/08/2008 | JOHN Hatton’s letter published on Friday August 22 is just so bloody typical of the Shoalhaven Action Campaign and their supporters.
25/08/2008 | AT THE August meeting of Nowra Shoalhaven Branch of the Hospital Auxiliary, members were surprised and delighted when the secretary read a letter of thanks and acknowledgment from the general manager Southern Hospitals Network.
25/08/2008 | WHEN I came to live here 20 years ago I thought how obviously beneficial it would be in so many ways and for so many people to have the train line continuing from Bomaderry to the Victorian border or at least way further south but my observations along those lines were always met with parochial criticisms.
25/08/2008 | E. CROWLEY (SCR Letters, August 20), Greg Watson has had nine years at the helm and as you acknowledge, the Shoalhaven has one of the highest unemployment levels in NSW (sic). Have you considered that prospective developers may want a fresh mayor?
25/08/2008 | RECENT changes to NSW planning laws will have a significant effect on an elected Council’s ability to have a say in the approval or refusal of development applications in their local areas.
22/08/2008 | AS Planning Minister when are you going to sign off on the North Nowra Link Road (NNLR)? I have written to our local member and colleague of yours Mr Matt Brown about the lack of access for residents of North Nowra to the Princes Highway other than Illaroo Road. I await his reply.
22/08/2008 | THE article published on August 13 regarding Nowra as an option for Sydney’s second airport made one wonder who next would be putting their hand up.
22/08/2008 | A GOLDEN opportunity has been missed by the State Government in not fully privatising Nowra’s impending new jail.
22/08/2008 | E. COWLEY from Old Erowal Bay (SCR Letters, August 20) says Shoalhaven Action Campaign candidates have no policies.
20/08/2008 | YOUR article on the merger of local marine rescue services (Bay and Basin Extra, August 15) was interesting, and it’s pleasing to see some steps toward State-level rationalisation of this important area.
20/08/2008 | WHAT a strange political party is Greg Watson’s Shoalhaven Independents Group.
20/08/2008 | WE write as members of the Greg Watson Support Crew, local hard working unknowns sitting in our low-cost houses and trying to make a go of it in the Shoalhaven.
18/08/2008 | THE headlines say it all: RBA warns 100,000 jobs at risk; Pensioners wait for pay rise; Tourism growth to flatline.
They are very disturbing headlines for the people of Gilmore.