Author: John Freer
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It was a good day yesterday for Coromandel Peninsula residents who have patiently waited for an Auckland ferry service to be reinstated. Work involving several organisations came to fruition with the Explore Group announcing the revival of the passenger water link between Coromandel Town and downtown Auckland. Managing director of Explore, William Goodfellow, indicated it […]
Explore Group has today announced it was be reinstating the popular Auckland to Coromandel ferry service this summer launching on October 24 just in time for Labour weekend. The company announced that initially it will operate an express Friday evening service, as well as Saturday and Sunday departures with plans to increase the schedule with […]
A plea from the chairman of the Thames Community Board, Adrian Catran, for residents to help in curbing the Thames drug and crime problem. The matter of crime and drug use in Thames was raised at the weekend at a meet the candidate’s event for the coming council elections. Adrian confirmed yesterday that wastewater tests […]
With 35-year-old Waiomu man Jared Sutton now having been missing for over a week, family and friends are urging residents of the region to assist in locating him. Jared was recorded as driving through Coromandel in his black Mitsubishi ute on Sunday of last week. His Auntie Angela Sutton spoke to CFM yesterday, expressing the […]
By John Freer Facing competition for the role this time round, Hauraki District Mayor Toby Adams is advocating many things, two stand outs being the need for experience at council tables and that the day to day stuff matters. Up against him is Levi Burton who also goes as Levi Phoenix, and Roman Jackson. […]
By John Freer Ratepayers and residents across the Thames Coromandel district are allowed to feel gutted with a cost-saving regional water partnership being turned off by one of the potential partners. Western Bays District Council has relented to the pressure of local tangata whenua, who are involved in a Treaty of Waitangi dispute with some […]
By John Freer With the withdrawal of two partners in the proposed future water management for Thames Coromandel, the local council will now be going it alone. The surprise decision came yesterday when both Western Bays District and Tauranga City Councils opted out of a potential three-way arrangement. Co-incidentally all three councils were meeting at […]
By John Freer So, the local council election campaigns are underway – a couple of pleasing aspects being the number of candidates standing locally, and the fact more than 160 people turned out to the Whitianga Residents and Ratepayers Association’s inaugural mayoral candidate event. All six mayoral contenders fronted, we had a former mayor in […]
We have been advised by Transpower of an urgent planned power outage scheduled for tonight, Monday, 7 July 2025, at 11:30 PM. The outage is necessary to fix a fault at the Kopu substation and is expected to last approximately 30 minutes. This outage will impact a wide area of the Coromandel and Hauraki districts, […]
By Stella Pennell The Ministry of Social Development says efforts are underway to reopen their Thames Service Centre, which has been closed since Monday. “We are working as quickly as we can to get our site reopened,” says Acting Regional Commissioner, Sharlene Horne. “We’re working closely with the landlord and staff, and we apologise for […]
