Author: John Grant
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Coromandel’s CFM spoke with Dennis Tegg this morning in a lengthy interview related to our story yesterday about the potential for the closure of areas around The Coromandel to commercial and recreation fishing. Dennis Tegg has clarified a number of areas and in particular the map below which was copied from the Council’s website. […]
The fishing community is up in arms over a proposal by the Waikato Regional Council that would see commercial and recreational fishing banned from extensive area around the entire Coromandel Peninsula. The draft proposal recently released by the Waikato Regional Council has several proposals and one of these is to “Prohibit Disturbance of the Seabed […]
On the early hours of June 18 2012, popular local Paeroa Pizza Man was shot and killed at the rear of his Pizza Restaurant ‘Mykonus’. Ten years later, no killer has been identified. Today we take a special look at the tragic death of a well loved local person in Paeroa with a special broadcast […]
By Len Salt The Coromandel district lost one of its best last week with the sad news that Katarina Brink-Lee had been drowned in a boating accident at Wyuna Bay. Katarina, or Kat as she was known to family and friends, was very well known in the Coromandel Peninsula and beyond as a writer, an […]
The Wharekaho Resident and Ratepayers Association had their annual meeting yesterday which was well attended and included the two mayoral candidates who have come forward and declared their intention to stand for Mayor. The meeting expressed frustration with slow progress on a number of issues impacting the area and the lack of response from Council, […]
Aileen Lawrie has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer for the Thames-Coromandel District Council effective from 1 August 2022. The recruitment process for the Chief Executive Role was managed by an independent executive search and recruitment service and a Chief Executive Appointment Panel made up of Mayor Sandra Goudie, Deputy Mayor Murray McLean […]
Read Brothers Hardware of 308 Pollen Street Thames and Coromandel’s CFM bring you “Back in Time” – Episode 1 – Zane Grey and the Mercury Bay Game Fishing Club Deep sea fishing was popular out of Mercury Bay. A celebrity of the 1920’s was Mr. Zane Grey, a well-known writer of Western novels and an […]
Public meetings are being held with ACT Party Leader David Seymour at three Coromandel locations: Whitianga, Pauanui and Whangamatā.
A warning of adverse weather for the Coromandel has been issued this morning by MetService. This is the remnants of tropical cyclone Fili that is now a low and on a course to travel close the the Coromandel Peninsula tomorrow and Wednesday. Expect 100 to 150mm of rain over a short period of time with […]
Rescue services including Coastguard and the Wespac Rescue Helicopter were called to the Aldermen Islands yesterday where a male in his 70’s had suffered a serious accident onboard a boat. The call came in to the rescue centre at about 1:55pm with a report that a man had suffered an accident and needed urgent medical […]
