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![A memento from Monte Cassino](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
A memento from Monte Cassino
Don McCulloch can be forgiven for the fact that he knew nothing of the battle for Cassino, in Italy, where New Zealand troops served with distinction...
![Take 2 an instant success](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Take 2 an instant success
If the response to the opening of the Far North Hospice shop, Take 2, in Kaitaias main street on Friday was anything to go by it will do a great job of raising funds for the organisation.
![Kaitaia crims had the best of it](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Kaitaia crims had the best of it
If any of those who were arrested and flung into a police cell outside The Warehouse in Kaitaia on Saturday didnt want to be there they did a good job of hiding it.
![Nield secures fourth enduro championship](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Nield secures fourth enduro championship
Mitchell Nield won his fourth national enduro and with a round to spare in the King Country on Saturday.
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Sharpshooter gives trophy collection to Special Olympics
A veteran marksman has donated a large number of his medals and trophies to the Far North Special Olympics.
![The artist and the chocolate maker](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
The artist and the chocolate maker
Transition Town Kaitaia has unearthed a unique link between a "radically different" Caribbean chocolate enterprise and Far North stained glass artist Kathy Shaw-Urlich (Ngapuhi, Ngati Hau).
![Protection at last for 'hungry ghosts'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Protection at last for 'hungry ghosts'
The site of one of Northland's most significant shipwrecks has been given legal protection as an archaeological amid concerns that divers have been raiding what is in effect a mass grave.
![The cops are coming for Carter](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
The cops are coming for Carter
An arrest warrant has been issued for Mayor John Carter. It won't be executed until Saturday, when he will be handcuffed and placed in a cell.
![Waipapakauri One, Two still unbeaten](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Waipapakauri One, Two still unbeaten
The two home teams kept their unbeaten record at Waipap in local darts last Wednesday after hosting Awanui and Mussel Rock, with Betty Masters notable for putting in a good performance for Awanui taking out two games.
![Next one gets it in the guts](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Next one gets it in the guts
Kaitaia pensioner Clyde Korach has had a "gutsful" of burglars, and he doesn't have much more regard for the police.
![Board of trustees election examined](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Board of trustees election examined
The Ministry of Education is investigating the legality of a board of trustees election at a Far North school where the roll has plummeted by more than half.
![Picture postcard autumn conditions in Ahipara](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Picture postcard autumn conditions in Ahipara
Ahipara turned on picture postcard autumn conditions for the Te Houtaewa Challenge Run Walk Cycle for Life.
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The icing on the cake for Blanche
Graduating with a Bachelor's degree in nursing was enough of an achievement to make Blanche Frost happy, but winning the 2013 New Zealand Nurses' Organisation Whakawatea Taonga was the icing on the cake.
![A mercy mission](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
A mercy mission
Kaitaia vet nurse Donna Badorek will be having a week off in October, but while she'll be bound for the tropics she won't be lying on a beach drinking pina coladas.
![Taggers and vandals - and now squatters](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Taggers and vandals - and now squatters
Kaitaia's Pirates Rugby Football Club has had some ups and downs over the last 60 years and more, but the good times seem a long time ago as the club battles an on-going spate of vandalism.
![Ahipara 2010 drowning raises joint concerns](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Ahipara 2010 drowning raises joint concerns
Northland Coroner Brandt Shortland has welcomed a series of recommendations from Surf Life Saving New Zealand at the inquest into the death of 40-year-old Auckland man Ieremia Denis Galuvao at Ahipara in January 2010.
![Return Of The Chief](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Return Of The Chief
Colin Dale strolls into the room in the Far North District Council offices looking far more like everyone's grandfather than the council's newly-appointed acting chief executive officer.
![Her Word is Law](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Her Word is Law
Kerikeri has more lawyers per capita than all but three other places in New Zealand. Who knew?
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North Country Rocks
This year the Country Rock Festival in Paihia celebrates 25 years of bringing music to the Bay.