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Tuesday, November 28, 2017
AT its November annual meeting, Motu Trails Charitable Trust welcomed two new trustees to the table — and said farewell to another.

Tuesday, 28 November, 2017
OPOTIKI District Council’s new planning and regulatory manager Gerard McCormack is beginning to make his presence felt with the Audit and Risk Committee yesterday considering, and then adopting his draft enforcement policy.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017
A DEDICATION and unveiling at two pou gracing the entrance of the Opotiki Primary School took place on Thursday.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017
ORGANISERS of this year’s White Ribbon March in Opotiki say the event had a bigger focus on family this year.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017
AN oversized table was constructed with the aid of more than 25 people at Weka Wilds last Saturday.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017
WITH only three of four weeks left to run in the Opotiki Ocean Seafoods touch rugby competition the action on Friday nights at Princess Street Reserve is beginning to heat up.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017
BOTH of Bay of Plenty teams made the top four of their competitions at the Cambridge Provincial Union Sevens Tournament on Saturday.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017
OPAPE resident Marcia Tutbury says fast work on the telephone by her son Stafford saved her cattle from being sold in the nick of time.

Thursday, November 23, 2017
THE latest edition of the Pacific Coast Highway Guide was delivered to the Opotiki News office on Wednesday morning.

Thursday, November 23, 2017
STATEMENTS to the Waitangi Tribunal panel by one of Whakatohea’s treaty negotiators have been dismissed as “personalised attacks” and not fact.

Thursday, November 23, 2017
WHILE single-crewed ambulances are set to be phased out in Whakatane next month, it’s too early to say when it will happen in Opotiki – except it will be within four years.

Thursday, November 23, 2017
From now until the end of summer contractors will be laying new road surfaces and carrying out pavement rehabilitation work on state highways across the Eastern Bay.

Thursday, November 23, 2017
THE search continues for former Eastern Bay man Nigel Peterson.

Thursday, November 23, 2017
WORK last Friday to clean out half a kilometre of drain along State Highway 2 in front of Waiotahi Drifts should help reduce water ponding in neighbouring paddocks.

Thursday, November 23, 2017
TERTIARY students will be better off by $50 a week from the start of next year.

Thursday, November 23, 2017
YESTERDAY morning a small group of whanau, friends and supporters gathered at the flag pole of the former Opotiki Christmas tree on Elliot Street, to welcome its replacement - Jamie Boynton’s inspiring light waka.

Thursday, November 23, 2017

PRAYERS are answered as two Kiwis on a chocolate business trip to Dublin end up spying an Italian shipbuilder who was kidnapped by Croatian pirates.

Tuesday, November 23, 2017
EASTERN Bay businesses have welcomed Government proposals to apply GST to online overseas purchases.

Thursday, November 23, 2017
ORGANISERS of the Opotiki Community Christmas Float Parade for 2017 point out that residents have one more week to sign up for the event.

Thursday, November 23, 2017
Opotiki rally driver Mike Young’s first-ever World Rally Championship (WRC) event has been a great success after he and co-driver Malcolm Read finished first in the two-wheel-drive category at the Kennards Hire Rally

Thursday, November 23, 2017
A BUS-load of 42 schoolboys from Tauranga arrived in Opotiki on Tuesday to learn mau rakau alongside Omarumutu School children.