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April meetings Key Action  Zoning Inspector Dave Harmon shared with council that a resident on Main Street would like to put in a retaining wall along his property on the side that faces Linden Avenue.  After many questions and much discussion, council decided to wait until a later meeting to make a decision until they had time to inspect it.   DISCUSSION Police Chief Dennis Moody reported that there were 12 events with three citations during the month of March.  There were approximately 2,000 miles combined for both cruisers.   Tye Twarog, water operator for the village, noted that the...

Base toll rates on Lee County bridges could increase by $2, but if you use an electronic transponder to pay there would be no increase under a plan discussed by Lee County commissioners Tuesday. More than a year after 27 toll takers were removed from rubbing hands with 1,500 motorists every day to take dollars and quarters from their not-always-sanitized fingers, the county commission is expected to make the change permanent at its next meeting in two weeks.  Getting commissioners on board with the idea of a toll rate increase, however, make take some more convincing. The county administ...

Rotary International is celebrating 100 years of service in Australia with a baton relay... first stop Grafton.

Crowd at the opening of the Ballina women’s and children’s refuge. Photo supplied. With demand sadly higher than ever, the Ballina community has come together to renovate and re-open the local women’s and children’s refuge. Momentum Collective took over the running of the Ballina refuge eighteen months ago. At the time, the building was in need of repair. Now the renovations are complete and the facility has also been made disability accessible. Those attending the recent official opening heard that refuge workers worked long hours on the project, alongside many community supporters,...

Ballina Rotary’s Col Lee, with the model raft. Photo David Lowe. A detailed scale model of a raft built to commemorate the historic Las Balsas expedition is looking for a new place to unfurl its sail. Formerly on display at the Ballina Airport, the raft model is currently in storage and out of the public eye. Col Lee from the Rotary Club of Ballina on Richmond is one of the people who would like to change that. The model was made for Rotary by Brian Walsh from Alstonville, a former boat-builder, to celebrate the 40 year anniversary of the Las Balsas expedition arriving in Ballina after an ...