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River pipeline idea dismissed

The Mahurangi River wastewater outfalls’ days are numbered. Watercare has dismissed a suggestion that a new wastewater pipeline, part of a $135 million Warkworth wastewater...

Schools prepare for year ahead

Teck Wee (right) will make the move to Wellsford from Mangawhai Beach School this summer. Mahurangi College After 27 years of teaching in the year...

Teachers embrace professional development

Lucie Cheeseman has worked in over 50 schools across Mahurangi and Auckland demonstrating best teaching practices to schoolteachers. As another school term beckons, one teacher...

Warkworth Rotarians make their mark at Vanuatu school

The ablutions block opening ceremony with Port Quimi School headmaster Charlie Tari and Warkworth Rotarian Jon Nicholson. Warkworth Rotary Club members have supplied and installed...

Warkworth U3A celebrates

Glyn Williams The Warkworth University of the Third Age (U3A) celebrated 20 years of education for the over 55s in December. The group, which was...

Successful opening for re-kindled Warkworth Theatre group

The Warkworth Theatre group’s production ‘4plays’ at the Old Masonic Hall over the last weekend in November attracted an audience of nearly 200 people. Stage...

Local Folk – Gendi Dwight

Chartered accountant Gendi Dwight first went to church in 2005 – and only because her four-year-old daughter was keen. Initially sceptical, Gendi began to believe...

Trust to be formed

A Trust is to be formed to assist Auckland Council with the future development of the Metro Park East sports facilities in Millwater. Representatives of...

Cellphone antennas extend

Changes to Government rules around environmental standards for telecommunications equipment mean that larger cellphone antennas than ever before can be put up on streetlights or...

Introducing: Bai Khmer

Rodney Hang has brought a slice of Cambodia to what used to be the pizza company on Neville Street in Warkworth.Rodney’s new restaurant, Bai Khmer,...