Joanne Mador Joanne Mador is leaving behind a 35-year career in teaching when she finishes up at Makauri School this week. She talks about what brought her here, what made her stay and why it’s time to leave. When Joanne Mador flicks off the...
Gisborne Civic Brass Band is set to celebrate its 150th anniversary over Easter in three days of music-making. Avneesh Vincent looks back at the band’s beginnings. Records show the Gisborne Civic Brass Band formed on April 5, 1873. It was called...
A Gisborne farmer upset over the district council’s lack of care for a frequently flooded river is calling for action in the wake of devastation from Cyclone Gabrielle. David Clark’s Opou Station backs on to Te Arai River — a 32-kilometre...
Work is set to begin on the Kāinga Ora complex off Mill Road and Gladstone Road after the site was blessed this week. Morehu Pewhairanga (left) conducted the blessing. Also present were Theo Akroyd (second left) senior stakeholder relationship...
COVID-19 is still present in Te Tairāwhiti, including two people who are in hospital. Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti has reported that cases are up slightly in the district with a daily average of 12.6. Between three and 22 cases have been reported every...
Thirty-three witnesses are expected to give evidence for the Crown at a trial in May for two people accused of murdering Gisborne woman Maraea Smith. Ms Smith, also known as Maraea Turnbull, died on her 36th birthday after being shot in Titoki...
fA Tokomaru Bay resident says her community is “ropable” logging trucks have been allowed to travel on a 300-metre closed section of road north of the East Coast town, while others are forced to take a 50-kilometre detour. A section of State...
A GISBORNE district councillor has apologised after being challenged about his use of the term Ngati Pakeha. Colin Alder used the term at yesterday’s council meeting when referring to people he otherwise described as being disgruntled farmers...
THE three years it is expected to take to fix the region’s “fragile and broken” infrastructure will make it hard to continue with a new 10-year plan, district council documents show. In a submission to the Government’s proposed Severe...
Aratu Forests has revealed just how “complex” the cyclone clean-up has been. Having regained access to its forests following severe weather events in Tairāwhiti, crews have gained better understanding of the impacts of cyclones Hale and...
Mentors wanted for Big Brothers Big Sisters programme The world’s largest volunteer mentoring network is coming to Gisborne and the search is on for potential youth mentors to be part of it. Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Zealand (BBSS) is...
The man driving an iwi initiative to rehouse families displaced by Cyclone Gabrielle says the district council is getting in the way. It failed iwi during the cyclone and continued to do so now, Toitu Tairāwhiti Builtsmart Limited director Willie...
John Jones The final community hearing on the ministerial inquiry into land use highlighted anger and frustration in Tokomaru Bay at the forestry industry and how its practices and its waste had exacerbated the impacts of extreme weather events...
Nelson Before I begin, we need to get one thing sorted. My dictionary defines a “phobia” as “a fear, aversion, or hatred, especially (if it is) morbid or irrational”. The Merriam Webster dictionary says it is “an...
Posie Parker was guilty of the heinous misdemeanour of saying a woman is a female human being and that biological men should stay out of female spaces. GR Webb
Sometimes there is good reason to strike — however, the timing of the strike this week by secondary school teachers was disappointing. Students have already lost a lot of time at school with Covid-related shutdowns. Here in Gisborne and Hawke’s...
CROQUET ROB Hayes and John Wilson have retained the Barry Memorial Croquet Club’s golf croquet doubles championship for 2023. Seven pairs played a round-robin format, and players were exhausted after six games, many of which lasted over an hour...
GISBORNE senior netballers face their second game of the 2023 season at Victoria Domain tomorrow and both premier grade encounters coud be be close contests. The Pak’nSave-sponsored competition features Whangara Old Girls 1 against Gisborne Girls...
ACTION aplenty beckons at the Gisborne Speedway Club track tomorrow night when a $26,000 Rees Racecars chassis goes on the line for the top prize in the Rees Racecars Superstock Challenge. The 28-car line-up for the challenge has “wow factor”...
THE recovery from the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Gabrielle continues in the district but tomorrow afternoon on the Ngatapa fields at Patutahi the focus will fully be on footy. Ngatapa Rugby and Associated Sports Club are hosting the traditional...
What a complete and utter disgrace. From violent trans-activists who fantasise Nazis in every shadow, to mainstream media who continue to pedal propaganda and division, to a negligent police force, to a Government that would appear to endorse the...
You write a letter stating facts and scientific truth and the woke left come out, claiming hatred and uneducated opinion. They claim this because they probably have a speck of common sense left and know they’re wrong, that a woman is a woman and...
Barring some unforeseen development that does not seem likely so far, the strikes by teachers’ unions look like going on for some time with the parties in what seems to be a sort of stalemate. About 20,000 members of the Post Primary Teachers’...
An iwi battling for formal recognition by the Gisborne District Council as being the owner of fresh water in its traditional territory has been dealt another blow by the courts but is vowing to fight on. This month the trust that represents Te...
Mike and Bridget Parker from Tolaga Bay had something to smile about at last when they got their organic Gold kiwifruit crop away recently. It was the first organically grown kiwifruit picked and packed in the country this season. The Parkers’...
Road users have been told to expect delays on SH2 at Otoko tomorrow morning, while tree stumps are removed. The work is part of the clean-up from Cyclone Gabrielle, to further improve the safety of the network north of Gisborne. “Waka Kotahi NZ...
Dave Brash, who led the Government rcovery effort after the Kaikoura earthquake, has been appointed to the panel conducting the ministerial inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti and Wairoa. He fills the vacancy left when Bill Bayfield resigned, and...
A total of 1002 weaner heifers sold on day two of the weaner cattle fair at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday, plus about 80 older cattle. Prices paid were firmer on those paid at the 2022 fair but not quite as strong as the previous day’s weaner...
by Jocelyn Noveck, AP “You’re not a lot of fun, are you,” notes barbarian Holga (Michelle Rodriguez) to brave fighter Xenk (Regé-Jean Page) in the new Dungeons & Dragons film, making two jokes at once. The first is that Xenk, a paladin...
LightscapeS, a solo exhibition of works by local painter Zoe Alford, opens at Tairāwhiti Museum tomorrow. The collection of new paintings includes images of seascapes, beaches, farmland, a vineyard, Eastland Port, and the old Midway Surf Lifesaving...
Part of Lytton Road will be closed for the best part of a week after contractors were called out to a sewer block on Tuesday night. They discovered the sewer main had collapsed and caused a sink hole at the edge of the Lytton Road – Stout Street...
Get to know Kita Mean, the winner of the first series of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, as she performs her show Delightfully Camp! at Lawson Field Theatre next month. Kita Mean has performed all over the world, from her own backyard to the US...
Join Aotearoa’s “finest family band” for an evening of lively entertainment at the War Memorial Theatre next month. The Harmonic Resonators are touring on the big stage in 2023 to promote their second album Rongo Ki Te Oro (Listen to the...
Gisborne actor/director James Packman was so persistent in his quest for rights to stage the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, his name reached composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s office in London. Packman had made regular inquiries to...