Month of November

Rural Women continue campaign  | Thursday 25 November 2010

Rural Women NZ are continuing their demand for a bylaw to reduce the speed of...

Business developments | Thursday 25 November 2010

Mohua Tees launches local T-shirts Artist Chachi Roden, manager Rea Stout and business partner Claire...

GBHS dux | Thursday 25 November 2010

Golden Bay High School dux Bastian Joechle-Rings says he likes to get his schoolwork “out...

Letters | Thursday 25 November 2010

  Community health trusts Given the just-announced financial failure of a community health trust in...

Sites going fast for Food and Wine Festival | Thursday 25 November 2010

Stall sites have almost sold out for the Golden Bay Cultural Food and Wine Festival...

Tennis proving to be a successful racket | Thursday 25 November 2010

Tennis continues to be one of the Bay’s boom sports. There are opportunities to play...

Pohara Boat Club 50th birthday  | Thursday 18 November 2010

A call has gone out to all past and current Pohara Boat Club members to...

Tukurua’s holiday park reopens  | Thursday 18 November 2010

Karyn and Dean Marden are the new managers of the Golden Bay Holiday Park at...

Nepal housing project | Thursday 18 November 2010

Spending a week building a low-cost house in Nepal isn’t your usual holiday activity, but...

Letters | Thursday 18 November 2010

  Takaka sewerage scheme Tasman District Council engineer Jeff Cuthbertson is absolutely right when he...

Great public response to St John medical unit in Collingwood | Thursday 18 November 2010

The Collingwood community has shown strong support for the establishment of a volunteer St John...

Rare crested penguin washes up on Farewell Spit | Thursday 18 November 2010

Chris Pomeroy was taking tourists out on a Farewell Spit Nature Tour last month when...

Respect and protect the coastal environment: message clear as busy beach season begins | Thursday 18 November 2010

Over the past few weeks, our beaches experienced their first summer-season influx of visitors enjoying...

Rachel Harvey CAS dux for second year running | Thursday 18 November 2010

Few students can claim to have been their school’s dux twice in their lives, but...

Art exhibition 12 Strands | Thursday 11 November 2010

With the support of the Arts Council, 12 artists are holding an art exhibition they...

Citizens’ band returns to Farewell Spit  | Thursday 11 November 2010

A brass band playing outside the first assistant’s house at Farewell Spit Lighthouse was the...

New generation of word gamers  | Thursday 11 November 2010

Small eyebrows furrow as a nine-year-old shuffles letter tiles.“Hmm. I need to ask Murray. Murray…?”...

Letters | Thursday 11 November 2010

  Amalgamation plan I have been a ratepayer  and resident of Golden Bay for  over...

Philly’s “beasties” beautiful after all | Thursday 11 November 2010

A multitude of colourful, shimmering, winged and moist-eyed beasties are crawling, flying or staring from...

SeniorNet: computer skills, unlimited advice | Thursday 11 November 2010

Since starting up here eight years ago, SeniorNet has served to introduce several hundred learners...

War photographer puts experiences in film | Thursday 11 November 2010

In between trips to Asia and around New Zealand, filmmaker Brian Dodds recently spent a...

U3A: a quest for learning in the third age of life | Thursday 11 November 2010

Golden Bay’s University of the Third Age, U3A, has nothing to do with a campus,...

Collaboration on CBD roadworks brings council apology and “a good outcome” | Thursday 11 November 2010

“We’ve learned some things through this process and we certainly want to apologise,” TDC’s utilities...

Opposition rises to TDC’s plans for CBD roadworks | Thursday 04 November 2010

Takaka businesspeople are united in their opposition to the timing of the roadworks associated with...

Council to come clean about Takaka’s new waste-water treatment plans in workshop and open day | Thursday 04 November 2010

Council is making progress on the planned upgrade to the Takaka waste-water treatment station, and...

Letters | Thursday 04 November 2010

  The Hobbit - have we been had? I wonder if I’m the only person...

New owners for township backpackers | Thursday 04 November 2010

Johno and Henrietta (Yetta) Earle are new owners of Barefoot Backpackers at 114 Commercial St,...

Trust to launch local health fundraising for integrated family health centre | Thursday 04 November 2010

The Interim Management Group is registering a trust deed so it can start the fundraising...

Allshorts Film Festival | Thursday 04 November 2010

With an excellent array of selected short films from all over New Zealand, Golden Bay’s...

Garlyn Dixon ordinary postie – not | Thursday 04 November 2010

Garlyn Dixon comes to her new role as rural postie from a working background that...

Garage sale culture in Golden Bay | Thursday 04 November 2010

“They seek them here, they seek them there, they seek them everywhere...”. Bargain hunters, those...

Bowling clubs jack up new members  | Thursday 04 November 2010

With recent coverage in the Commonwealth Games, bowling may yet see a nationwide resurgence, says...