Month of January

A Way with The Faeries | Thursday 28 January 2010

A highlight of this year’s Heart Art 2010 was A Way With The Faeries, a...

Marine farmers support Stream Care’s clean water success with cash funding  | Thursday 28 January 2010

When Bill Wallace heard that Aorere Stream Care’s funding had been axed, he thought it...

Health integration back on track after “helpful” feedback from community | Thursday 28 January 2010

The Integrated Management Group has received 62 feedback forms and letters from the Golden Bay...

Confirmation of suspected norovirus pending  | Thursday 28 January 2010

A suspected norovirus outbreak at the Golden Bay Holiday Park at Tukurua has devastated the...

Golden Bay Cultural Food & Wine Festival “was awesome”’ | Thursday 28 January 2010

Last week’s inaugural Golden Bay Cultural Food and Wine festival in Pohara was an unqualified...

Golden Bay’s sporting honours board gets a welcome extension and update | Thursday 28 January 2010

The Golden Bay sporting honours board has had another update.The board, on the wall at...

Letters Friday 29 January 2010 | Thursday 28 January 2010

Post a photo - save our back-country Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act lists...

Onekaka Workshops | Thursday 28 January 2010

Onekaka WorkshopsFurniture maker Chris Astill, of Onekaka Workshops, has purchased an automatic copy lathe capable...

Go Willow | Thursday 28 January 2010

Now that natural burials are becoming acceptable mainstream, the enterprising weaving trio of Nicola Basham,...

Composting alternatives not just a load of rubbish | Thursday 28 January 2010

At this month’s A&P Show, TDC’s environmental education officer Claire Webster took great delight in...

Colgate Games athletes return with medals | Thursday 28 January 2010

 Takaka athletes won three medals and posted plenty of personal best performances at the recent...

Big rise in stoat activity reported | Thursday 28 January 2010

A big increase in anecdotal sightings and trap tallies for stoats across Golden Bay is...

Cutting-edge solar-heating system installed in Rangihaeata house  | Thursday 21 January 2010

Only the second unit of what is currently the most high-tech and quite possibly the...

Vikings, vampires and weathered boaties compete in Tata’s cardboard boat race | Thursday 21 January 2010

Mayor Richard Kempthorne opened the 13th Tata Cardboard Boat Race last Sunday morning, saying he...

Harbour manager predicts port and business benefits from cruise ship visits to the Bay | Thursday 21 January 2010

Adventure travel came to Golden Bay in style this week.In what organisers hope will be...

Letters 22 Jan | Thursday 21 January 2010

Tukurua Campground Road not a State HighwayI’ve lived on Tukurua Road for 3+ years now,...

Rangihaeata tramper clocks up 1000 huts | Thursday 21 January 2010

Last summer, veteran tramper Paul Kilgour completed an 85-day traverse of the length of the...

Local artists exhibit “A Celebration of Elemental Life” at the Suter | Thursday 21 January 2010

Golden Bay photographer Lethea Erz and artist Ngang have combined the colours and expressions of...

Baleage wrapping display, wool- handling, quilting and ferris wheel at the A&P Show | Tuesday 19 January 2010

Increased numbers of trade stalls and very good levels of entries in the booth augur...

Tourism season brings high camping numbers | Tuesday 19 January 2010

Although foot-traffic through the Takaka I-site doors in December was down 7.6 per cent on...

Cornerstone Roots: The Future Is Now | Tuesday 19 January 2010

In the first week of the New Year, Takaka truly cemented the notion that little...

Sand Sculpture Extravaganza: Fun and fantasy on the foreshore | Tuesday 19 January 2010

The Arts Council’s annual Sand Sculpture Extravaganza doesn’t have “sandcastle” in its title, because on...

Letters 15 Jan | Tuesday 19 January 2010

Friends of Golden BayWell done Hika Rountree (GBW Letters 8/1) on an excellent “call to...

Time-saving effluent-spreading invention ready for production | Tuesday 19 January 2010

Jeff Riordan reckons that most dairy farmers would rate shifting the effluent irrigator as one...

Claire on Avatar costume team: “It’s a dream come true!” | Tuesday 19 January 2010

Designer/artist/jeweller Claire Prebble has been busy.In 2004, Claire became the youngest-ever winner of the Supreme...

Gold rush: Golden Bay founded on a half-century treasure hunt | Tuesday 19 January 2010

A few specks of gold, found in the Aorere Valley by a musterer in October...

Clifftop whalewatcher reflects on his dolphin days and sights of the sea | Tuesday 19 January 2010

From his home on the coastal clifftop between Tukurua and Onekaka, 62-year-old Buzz Davis has...

Exotic timbers, monster kokopu, rare mussels | Saturday 09 January 2010

Humfrey Newton’s little forest that he planted over his seven hectares of lowland at Onekaka...

Business (and everything) goes in cycles | Saturday 09 January 2010

It’s been nearly 15 years since Martin Langley set up The Quiet Revolution cycle shop,...

Weaver confesses fascination for her craft | Saturday 09 January 2010

Maureen Harte’s Wild Sands Weaving studio takes its name from the ever-changing views over Farewell...

Letters 8 January 2009 | Saturday 09 January 2010

The new integrated medical facility What a difficult choice regarding the site of the proposed...

Throttling up for an aviation career | Saturday 09 January 2010

Collingwood student Hazel Kerr is well on her way to gaining her private pilot’s license....

Powelliphanta operation knocks back predator numbers | Saturday 09 January 2010

An aerial 1080 pest control operation in Kahurangi National Park’s Anatoki River area in October...

Pakawau man hooked on Kepler mountain run  | Saturday 09 January 2010

Recently home after completing his fifth Kepler Challenge, Pakawau resident and Collingwood postie Graham Williams...