by Waimea Weekly | Oct 6, 2018 | Local News, Sport
Tapawera Area School’s Clay Morgan was the first student from his school to make the Combined Waimea College First Fifteen and had such a successful season he was selected for the New Zealand Area Schools Rugby Team. Preseason training for the Waimea team kicked off...
by Waimea Weekly | Oct 6, 2018 | Local News, Sport
Murchison librarian of 25 years and volunteer ambulance officer, Janne Falkner, has just come back from competing at the World Triathlon Age-Group Championships on the Gold Coast. After training for a year and overcoming a fear of water, Janne was pleased with her...
by Waimea Weekly | Oct 5, 2018 | Local News
It’s been two years of planning and construction for Wakefield School’s obstacle course and on Friday, September 28, the course was officially opened. Parents, friends, students and teachers were joined by Lees Seymour from Nelson Forests and Goldpine representatives...
by Waimea Weekly | Oct 5, 2018 | Local News
Upper Moutere locals will join with descendants of settler German families on Labour weekend to celebrate 175 years since the arrival of the first German immigrant ship to our region. The St Pauli arrived in Nelson in June 1843 and those on board became the first...
by Waimea Weekly | Oct 4, 2018 | Local News
Everybody knows there’s little that can rival the beauty of the night sky, and now the local Dark Sky committee is on a crusade to encourage the Department of Conservation (DOC) to designate the larger areas of their estate in the top of the south as Dark Sky...
