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School Star – Champ likes the fight
LOOKING UP: Tarawera High School's Allan Chisolm is a national champion. Photo Louis Klaassen D4164-13 Allan Chisolm Year 9 Tarawera High School Brazilian Jiu Jitsu YOU have to be strong and smart to...
View ArticleThree Eastern Bay people seek health role
THE Eastern Bay has three opportunities to gain representation on the Bay of Plenty District Health Board during the October local government elections. Whakatane residents Judy Turner and Yvonne...
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Young Olympians earn medals
AND THEY’RE OFF: Hannah Maguire Overdevest, Cleve Barraclough, Jack Maguire Overdevest, Quinn Cooper, Emmett Jones, Aaron Nilleson, Tyler Power, Cohen Lawsen, Kensy Mews, Hokianga Boynton, Georgia...
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Fours tourney hits the greens
ROLLING OUT: John Riley plays a shot during the optional split fours tournament at the Whakatane Bowling Club on Saturday. Photo Louis Klaassen D4134-22 WHAKATANE Bowling Club hosted an open optional...
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Aero club’s flying visit
FLY-IN: Two members of the Mercury Bay Aero Club fly into Whakatane Airport in their gyrocopter. Photos Louis Klaassen D4130-31 MEMBERS of the Mercury Bay Aero Club made a flying visit to Whakatane on...
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Bike versus car race to highlight congestion issue
Mike van der Boom,mayoral candidate MAYORAL hopeful Mike van der Boom is using a light-hearted bicycle-versus-car race to highlight traffic congestion impacting the day-to-day lives of many Whakatane...
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Car collides with fallen tree at Matata
FALLEN: A large Pohutukawa tree fell at State Highway 2 last night and the road was cleared this morning. Photo Louis Klaassen D4166-30 UPDATE: Contractors are currently working to clear the slip and...
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Spotlight home – Picture-perfect home in Coastlands
PICTURE PERFECT: This Cape Cod-style three-level home is picture perfect with elevated views. Open2view Matt Lowe THIS three-level, Cape Cod-style Coastlands home is situated on an elevated section at...
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Feature home – Calling all investors and first home buyers
BROAD APPEAL: This three bedroom brick home in Douglas Street will appeal to a broad range of buyers. Troy Baker Photography If you’re looking for a solid, low maintenance home in a good area check out...
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Man breaks legs after falling into dumpster
RECYCLE: A 20-year-old Whakatane man suffered two broken legs when he fell into a dumpster at the Whakatane Recycling Park in Te Tahi Street this morning. Photo Louis Klaassen D4169-03 A 20-YEAR-OLD...
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A changed man
Eastern Bay Life photographer Louis Klaassen left last month on his first overseas trip. His annual leave was scheduled for four weeks and the purpose of the trip was to take part in a Catholic...
View ArticleDrop in beef and lamb exports
BEEF and lamb exports to key markets fell in July, slicing into overall meat exports, Statistics NZ says. In the month of July 2016, total exports were $4 billion and total imports were $4.4 billion....
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Progeny test results roll in
TEST RESULTS: Tautane Station manager Matt Smith says he is impressed withresults to date from the B+LNZ Genetics beef progeny test.Photo supplied RESULTS coming in now from Beef and Lamb New Zealand...
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Biblical epic recreated
HOLD YOUR HORSES: Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) in the chariot-racing scene made famous by the 1959 Acadeny Award-winning version of Ben-Hur. Ben-Hur Drama; Cert M, contains violence; 2hrs 15mins...
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Exhibitors pleased with trade show
CUTE AND CUDDLY: Diveworks owners Phil and Steph van Dusschoten show guinea pigs to Naomi Mayes, 4, while Nate Mayes, 2, stands nearby. D4173-55 THE 2016 Beacon Business and Leisure Show unveiled some...
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Ellis Shield goes west
ON THE BALL: Regan Atkins is in possession for the Eastern Bay. D4179-181 THE Ellis Shield sub-union rugby tournament was held across the Bay of Plenty on Saturday. The under-11 teams played at Mount...
View ArticleCourt news – Mobster attacks woman
GANG member Akutina Waitohi Mihinui Toa savagely beat a woman while she was filling up her car at the Z petrol station in Kawerau. On June 4 at about 10pm Toa, a patched Mongrel Mob member, was at the...
View ArticleTraffic-flow crisis
THE traffic flow trial that will begin at the Landing Road Bridge in September will only work effectively if traffic flow through The Hub car park coming onto the roundabout at Harvey Norman (as a...
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Food project approved
URBAN FOOD: The Kawerau Urban Food Forest team of Akeyla Wade, Dylan Edwardson, Niamh O’Brien, Trish Brady and Hannah Edwardson has approval to create a fruit and vegetable garden.Photo supplied...
View ArticleForecast milk price lifts 50 cents
IN what will be welcome news for dairy farmers, Fonterra last week increased its forecast milk price for the current 2016-17 season by 50 cents to $4.75 per kilogram of milk solids. When combined with...
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