Peperomias are great little ornamental indoor plants that are easy to grow and available in various colours including dark green, dark red, purple, silver and variegated. There’s one to suit everyone’s wish list and the dark red one is all you...
Mike Yardley’s journey through Sarajevo reveals a city’s resilience against the backdrop of the breathtaking Balkans. The Balkans are a compelling, battle-hardened pocket of Southeastern Europe, fractured by epic conflicts over the ages. But...
Gwynne Dyer “If we look at it over the years, one of the main people contributing to Hamas’s strengthening has been (Prime Minister) ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu,” said Yuval Diskin, head of Israel’s Shin Bet security service between 2005 and 2011...
A group of “lifesavers” showed up at Pauline’s place in Tiniroto last week in the form of missionaries from the Seventh-Day Adventist church. They set to work on the house begun some years ago by Pauline’s brother Dennis. He suffered an...
Makaraka School is on a mission to clean up rubbish on the main road outside the school putting a new spin on the Wednesday Challenge. The Wednesday Challenge is about encouraging people to walk to school but at Makaraka School it’s about cleaning...
No 'closed-door' decisions.
Rocket Lab anticipates it will resume rocket launches from Mahia by the end of the year, after it received Federal Aviation Administration authorisation to resume. The authorisation comes after Rocket Lab experienced an in-flight anomaly on...
Police are appealing for information after a pensioner was found with serious injuries in Wainui at the weekend. The 71 year-old man was located in a serious condition on Moana Road, under the Okitu Bridge, around 10.30am on Sunday, October 22. The...
Extra security has been drafted in after a security guard working for a Waka Kotahi contractor was threatened at gunpoint. “Our contractors working at a site on State Highway 35 at Mangahauini have confirmed one of their security guards was...
The community is invited to participate in the second Tairāwhiti Wellbeing Survey (TWS), to help build comprehensive data about how the region is doing. The survey was designed to improve local data to better understand the wellbeing and needs of...
Community grants totalling just over $196,000 were approved in the latest funding round from Trust Tairāwhiti. The biggest recipients were Toitu Tairāwhiti and Te Runanga o Ngāti Porou, which each received $75,000 towards their emergency...
Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village has been crowned Ryman Healthcare’s Village of the Year for 2023 in what has been a true roller-coaster ride of a year for the resilient Gisborne team. Village manager Penny Forrester accepted the trophy at this...
Gisborne residents from overseas became New Zealand citizens this week at a ceremony at Gisborne District Council
One hundred years ago today Gisborne became the home of one of New Zealand’s first radio broadcasting stations. Station 2YM was started by three Gisborne amateur radio operators — Percy Stevens, Ivan O’Meara and Bob Patty — who obtained one...
An old Irish saying goes, ““Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout”. There is something serene about fishing, where time stands still, and the only sound is the swishing of the fishing line being cast and the waters running...
She had invited her ex-partner for a weekend of reconciliation but, high on meth, all that jealous and mentally-unstable Rimu Morrell could dish out was terror — not just for the woman but the general public too. Assaults, verbal abuse, dangerous...
The Transport Rebuild East Coast (TREC) alliance is coming to Gisborne in a big way, taking over the three-storey heritage building on Gladstone Road that formerly housed Eastland Group, recruiting locals — some likely to come from businesses...
Bob Hughes I was born in September 1932 during the Great Depression and was an infant when Hitler, leader of the Nazi party, became the chancellor of Germany in 1933. Woodville was our home. Our Mum read us bedtime horror stories like Hansel and...
I just wanted to write and thank the voters in the East Coast electorate for trusting in me to deliver for the electorate over the next three years. I am deeply humbled by the support and will always do my best to represent you all fairly, with...
Seeking school friend Joseph Francis Sheriff of East Cape area, born about 1952. Any information appreciated. D. Bourchier hambears@xtra. co. nz
by Rockin’ Robin The first meeting of the Eastland Kart Club’s 11th season was held on Sunday, featuring a different format for the year. Just the rookies and juniors run under the 3 heat format front, middle and back. However, the added feature...
Gisborne Boys' High School Blues and Royals' six-wicket win over the Campion College second 11 in round 1 of the secondary schools’ Year 9-11 Challenge Cup officially led off organised cricket in Poverty Bay on Wednesday. All three junior leagues...
PATUTAHI MONDAY — Men’s net: Dave Skudder 65, CharlieTaylor 68, Graeme Holland 68, Lindsay Jamieson 68. Twos: Dave Skudder. SATURDAY — Patutahi open closing day and Ruka Tupara Memorial Trophy, Canadian foursomes stableford: Tony Green/Helen...
OBITUARY: ARTHUR BACON Half-hearted wasn’t in Arthur Bacon’s vocabulary. If he was going to do something, he was going to give it his best shot. And giving it his best shot almost always meant doing it well. Especially in the sporting aren...
Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier is calling on councils to open workshops to the public by default, to reduce the perception that decisions are being made behind closed doors. This follows an investigation of eight councils (not including Gisborne or...
The New Zealand Government announcement yesterday at the United Nations calling for a “humanitarian pause” in the Israeli war on Gaza is an insipid response to the slaughter of Palestinian civilians in their thousands in Gaza. Already over 5000...
Thank you Lara Meyer for your October 24 letter: Vote upsetting, immoral. You said it all from your own experience of the indigenous Australians’ position. I agree with all your comments 100 percent. You said it was a punch in the face; I will add...
When sufficiently motivated, we will purposively work in the best interests of each other. It is meaningful to do so. We need confidence in each other and the system. Faith is helpful in the face of adversity. Presently, without fundamental change...
Whoop, whoop Murray Ferris, absolutely brilliant letter (Over left-leaning vitriol, October 24). I couldn’t have said it any better. I have been wanting to write in for a while about the same thing. I have had a few run-ins with Mary-Ann de Kort...
The process to independently review the performance of Hawke’s Bay’s flood scheme assets and river management programmes in response to Cyclone Gabrielle is under way. The review has been instigated by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HRBC) in...
A man’s persistent and unwanted advances on a woman one night at a social function has ruined her life, she says, causing her sleep disturbances, health issues, and decimating her career. And because Corey Te Urikore Walker, a 30-year-old barber...
by Jack Ward, Wairoa Star Protection against pests in native fauna and flora is coming to the Whakakī Lake Trust. The trust will receive $113,900 for the pest control project from the Department of Conservation Community Fund Pūtea Tautiaki...
Sign language interpreters are becoming a more familiar sight with seemingly never-ending civic emergency announcements and regular government announcements during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. But what about the general election, and everyday...
Tyla Gordon knows a thing or two about managing a fast-paced and popular fast food restaurant. She’s been a manager of the McDonalds restaurant chain for over 15 years, starting at the tender age of 14 and now approaching 30. “I needed money...