I WAS in Byron Bay the other day and picked up the latest edition of Rusty’s Byron Guide which has been a Byron Shire summer institution for many years.

These days it seems to run like a well-oiled machine – although I know from my many years in newspaper publishing, things don’t always go that smoothly – but it wasn’t always like that as this story I wrote for the Northern Star in August, 1990, shows.

The headline, as you can see from the photo, read, ‘Guide book bout ends with a TKO’

This is the story:Read More…→

AS a soccer goalkeeper,  Australian international film and TV star, Anthony LaPaglia, was no mug.

He played keeper for Adelaide City and West Adelaide in the old NSL competition in the 1980s and also for Hollywood United in later years.Read More…→

DRAINAGE problems in the CBD have made Byron Bay susceptible to flash flooding when it really buckets down.Read More…→

JETTIES have a strong historical connection with Byron Bay and sporadically the idea of building a new jetty gets a public airing.

The biggest push I recall in my time with the Northern Star and Byron News was in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Read More…→

WHO remembers this? On May 24, 1988, thousands of people, including hundreds of schoolchildren, lined Main Beach at Byron Bay from early morning to welcome First Fleet Re-enactment tall ships making their way to Sydney for major Bicentennial celebrations.Read More…→