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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,...
