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Thursday, December 14, 2017
PAUL Harris Fellowship recipient and former Opotiki College principal Andrew Taylor says Rotary and the college both provide ways to connect with the larger world.

Thursday, December 14, 2017
OPOTIKI Surf Life Saving Club is going strong, having recently welcomed a new canoe into the club – and saved a kontiki.

Thursday, December 14, 2017
Bluebottle jellyfish have arrived in the Eastern Bay, washing ashore at both Snells Beach and Waiotahe Beach.

Thursday, December 14, 2017
FOR Opotiki’s Mike Young, 2017 on the international rally circuit has been like a bag of licorice allsorts with him and his co-driver Malcolm Read ultimately ending up fourth in the Australian Rally Championship.

Thursday, December 14, 2017
OPOTIKI’S student Monica Falkner is in the Silver Ferns squad for a five-day camp in Auckland this week.

Thursday, December 14, 2017
THE sevens rugby season is picking up speed and Opotiki players are showcasing their skills from Cambridge to Cape Town.

Tuesday, December 12. 2017
KUTARERE residents are calling for the speed limit to be lowered after a fatal crash on Sunday night in a known trouble spot.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017
A CORONER believes adults responsible for providing alcohol consumed by an underage girl, who was killed after being hit by a car as she lay comatose on an Opotiki street, should be prosecuted as a form of deterrent.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017
AN Opotiki man of retirement age was found not guilty of intentionally wounding a man with a machete last week in the Tauranga High Court.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017
THE speed limit on the Tauranga Eastern Link toll road and the Cambridge section of the Waikato Expressway is now 110kmh.
The increased speed limit, which came into effect yesterday, is a significant milestone for people dr

Tuesday, December 12, 2017
THE relocation of the Whakatohea Health Centre is part of an integrated plan for health services in Opotiki.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017
THERE was triple success for Opotiki in this year’s Kiwibank Local Hero Awards.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017
A very wet spring followed by a hot, dry start to summer has put pressure on summer feed supply for dairy farmers in some parts of the country.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017
THE return of touch rugby to Opotiki has been a success, with a second installment looking likely in the New Year.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017
OPOTIKI can celebrate with home-grown talent Mike Young, finishing his first World Rally Championship (WRC) event in Australia in number one spot – in the two-wheel-drive class he and co-driver Malcolm Read were competing

Thursday, December 7, 2017
THE Department of Conservation says access to recently-blocked fishing spots along the Waioeka River will be restored today.

Thursday, December 7, 2017
THE new Peria House manager says the former rest home section of the facilities are now being used in the way they were originally intended.

Thursday, December 7, 2017
WHAKATOHEA Mussels’ second boat will help boost the company’s annual harvest from 300 tonnes this year to 2000 tonnes in 2018.

Thursday, December 7, 2017
AN attempt to halt negotiations between Whakatohea Pre-Settlement Claims Trust and the Office of Treaty Settlements, which includes an agreement in principle to settle the tribe’s claim, has been declined by the Waitangi

Thursday, December 7, 2017
FIREARMS stolen in the Eastern Bay are likely to end up on the black market, police say.

Thursday, December 7, 2017
CONSUMER NZ has opened a new fund to help consumers take complaints against rest homes to the Disputes Tribunal.