Local Matters

Marie Avenue in Red Beach, where Dorothy Morpeth lives, was named after her cousin. Almost all the streets there have special memories for this 86-year-old,...

Pete Townend and son Bryn, aged 11, at Dacre Cottage. In the background, is the red barn that is being converted to a museum. The...

David Green has lived in Greens Road, Matakana, all his life; long enough to have seen snow on Mount Tamahunga, a flood that inundated the...

Anzac Paratene, who was named after the day on which he was born, spent a large part of his working life – from 1969 to...

Farmer and businessman Don Hawkings recently resigned after 17 years as chairman of Rodney Health Trust. His collaboration with, and subsequent marriage to, trust founder...

For most of his 77 years, Guy Hopper has lived on Whangaparaoa Peninsula. He grew up here with his family when the peninsula was farmland,...

Louise Nicholson is passionate about education and science. A former teacher at Mahurangi College, she is now Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of...

Personable, talkative and enthusiastic are fitting descriptions of Rodney’s new deputy mayor. Since taking office just over a month ago, Orewa’s John Kirikiri has been...

Thirty years as a topdressing pilot has given David Starr a different perspective on the Warkworth area. The most dramatic change he has seen is...

Matakana Village has undergone big changes in the last few years but down the road from the upmarket development at the cinema complex, butcher Steven...