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Introducing: MAD About Travel

They might be mad about travel, but Manly couple Phil and Katie Clark insist that they are not insane to launch a new travel agency...

Introducing: Moreish Café

It takes more than a few lockdowns to dampen the enthusiasm of Bharat Naranbhai, the owner of Silverdale Mall’s newest café, Moreish. He is bursting...

Introducing: Coast Photo

The experience and expertise gained in a lifelong career in the photographic industry is now available in Ōrewa, with the opening of Coast Photo by...

Stillwater firewood business gets the chop

Customers of Silverdale Landscape Services will no longer be getting their firewood from the family business after Auckland Council enforced an abatement notice. The business,...

Introducing: The Legal Team

Bringing legal services down to earth and making solicitors more approachable is one of the key drivers behind the creation of new community law practice...

Anger at plans to open new liquor store in Matakana

Super Liquor wants to open a bottle shop in the old Summer Sessions store, next to Jin Jin restaurant. An application to open a Super...

Rodney College athletes achieve top placings

Xavier Edmonds-Cooper leaps into first place in the long jump. Rodney College students travelled to the big smoke last month and gave their Auckland peers...

One-way for Bakehouse Lane?

An opinion poll indicates that people are unhappy about safety for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians in Bakehouse Lane, Ōrewa, despite the fact that no accidents...

Resilient Anzac service needs community help

Attendance at Anzac services at Ōrewa Remembrance Reserve has been growing over the years. Residents say in the early days around 80 people took part,...

Mysterious case of disappearing pews

The Wainui community was taken by surprise when half the pews in its little historic church disappeared. Parishioners Alan and Rae Penney unlocked the Wainui...