The end of an era for DVD store
United Video Richmond has announced it will be closing its doors for good on Sunday, October 28. The long-standing video store has been providing patrons with family movie nights and rainy day snuggles for many years and has been the only one left in Richmond since...
Quarry company look to resume mining
Brightwater quarry company Lee Processors is optimistic they’re on the right track to resume mining serpentine rock for fertiliser, after being forced to stop production due to test results showing higher-than-permitted levels of asbestos in their product. A 750-tonne...
Bearded wonder now NZ champion
On a mantlepiece in Wakefield a statue stands proudly in recognition of the dedication to beard growing its recipient, Shane Thompson, has displayed. Shane was crowned national champion at the New Zealand Beard and Moustache competition in Auckland on Thursday,...
Teeball a hit with local kids
More than 200 local children embraced the local baseball programme on Wednesday, September 26, in a schools’ tee ball tournament. Held at the region’s baseball diamonds at Champion Green in Stoke, the tournament saw 22 teams enter from schools around Tasman and...
Riders came from near and far
Ruby Andrew and her pony Pickles, shows off her 1st and 5th placing ribbons she won in her two dressage tests at the Murchison Dressage and Showjumping Day, held on September 30. Colette Barrow, Murchison Pony Club organiser, says entries had doubled from their last...
Tapawera student hits his stride
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...
Murchison athlete competes at Gold Coast triathlon
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...
School’s obstacle course proves popular
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...
Celebration of 175 years of German settlement in Upper Moutere
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...
Dark Sky park proposal for St Arnaud residents
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...