Collaborative approach aids Maori housing cause

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.

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.

Mitchell Nield won his fourth national enduro and with a round to spare in the King Country on Saturday.

A veteran marksman has donated a large number of his medals and trophies to the Far North Special Olympics.

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).

Orchardists are always happy to see a horde of willing pickers hove over the horizon when fruit needs to be harvested, but those who arrived at Tony and Diane Hewitt's property at Waiharara last week were something special.

Different times

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.

Once were fish

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.

Kaitaia pensioner Clyde Korach has had a "gutsful" of burglars, and he doesn't have much more regard for the police.

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.

The efforts of a dedicated group of skaters who had driven all the way from Kaitaia to take part in the Hoki Sk8 2014 competition last month helped convince organisers not to pull the plug on the event because of rain.

Ahipara turned on picture postcard autumn conditions for the Te Houtaewa Challenge Run Walk Cycle for Life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kerikeri has more lawyers per capita than all but three other places in New Zealand. Who knew?

Willowbrook Farm

Is this a sign of being very afraid?

This year the Country Rock Festival in Paihia celebrates 25 years of bringing music to the Bay.

Dr Simon Leith and Dr Andrew McNaughton from the Kerikeri Dental Centre strongly recommend early assessment.

Mangonui seniors

At the time of this edition going to print, a number of Northland's top sheepdogs and their handlers were getting their North Island Championship campaigns under way in Taumaranui.