Street ambassadors keeping the peace

Street ambassadors keeping the peace

Skilled local youth workers, the Tasman Street Ambassadors, are out patrolling the streets again and helping keep the public safer until early February. The team of 19 across Tasman and Nelson districts patrol public places, deliver safety messages and offer advice...
Cycle trail open before Christmas

Cycle trail open before Christmas

The newest section of the Great Tasman Taste Trail is set to open in time for the Christmas break and, according to Higgins representative Kim Ace, it is already being touted as perhaps the ‘smoothest unsealed cycle trail in the country.’ Construction began in...
100 years and counting

100 years and counting

Claude Teece was born on December 12, 1918. He survived three years of soldiering in Cairo during World War Two. He married his teenage sweetheart, Kath, as soon as he got back from the war and they celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary just before Kath’s passing...
Appleby church celebrates 150 years

Appleby church celebrates 150 years

St Alban’s Anglican Church has just celebrated 150 years since being built and organiser and retired minister Fergus Capie couldn’t be more pleased with how the weekend went. Amongst many parishioners young and old, Saturday’s service was also attended by current...
Trio of teens build winning e-bike

Trio of teens build winning e-bike

The other competitors may have had a few years on them, but what our local teen boys lacked in age they made up for with tenacity. Waimea College year-9 students Michael Dewe and Finn Eger were joined by Garin’s Brennan Drach at EVolocity’s 2018 grand final in...