Author: John Freer
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By John Freer Ratepayers across the Coromandel Peninsula are going to have to find a way to cover between an 11.8 to 14 percent increase in rates for the coming 12 months. Across the entire district the average increase will be 11.4 percent. In a breakdown the biggest proposed increase will impact on Mercury Bay, […]
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins was on the Coromandel Peninsula today inspecting storm damage along the Thames Coast. After a flying visit which included the opportunity to meet with Thames Coromandel Mayor and Civil Defence staff, the Prime Minister did not provide any concrete solutions to the challenges being experienced by the region. There were lots […]
The fragile nature of the regions roading network was again exposed yesterday as SH25 between Opotuere and Whangamata remains off limits to heavy trucks and is single lane only for light vehicles. Traffic management is in place as engineers continue to assess the damage caused by what is described as a significant underslip. Thames Coromandel […]
State Highway 25 is now open to light traffic and only under traffic management following an earlier closure today due to an extensive under-slip between Whangamata and Hikuai. With more than 80mm of rain overnight the road let go with what has been described as a significant slip. It remained closed until mid-afternoon while engineers […]
It is being hailed as just the tonic the Coromandel and Hauraki regions need and event organisers are making sure that everyone gets a slice of the action. Organisers of this months Beach Hop, as previously announced, are having the event touch every community from Waihi and Paeroa in the south, to Coromandel Town and […]
By John Freer The region this week has been able to move into recovery mode from the eight weather events which started last November. Thames Coromandel Mayor Len Salt spoke to CFM this week about that recovery. There is good and not so good news. The Mayor tells us that he is pleased with the […]
A respite in the weather has been welcomed by the Thames Coromandel civil defence team who yesterday had the opportunity to show their Minister Kieran McAnulty some of what is described as the raw Coromandel Peninsula. Civil Defence controller Garry Towler said having the Minister see the likes of the Tapu Coroglen Road and the […]
With Friday being the cut off for public consultation on the Hauraki Gulf Fisheries Management Plan, Hauraki Gulf Alliance member, Legasea, has been angered to what it sees as being late changes to the plan. Legasea spokesman, Sam Woolford, described changes allowing commercial bottom trawling and scallop dredging, as insulting to the many groups which […]
Business trading in Thames has suffered on the back of the spate of recent storms with some reporting a 50 percent drop in sales. During today’s Thames Business Association forum aimed at finding ways to reboot the economy – which attracted 80 people, business owners reported a trading downturn of between 30 and 50 percent. […]
Get prepared as Cyclone Gabrielle is going to hit the Coromandel and Hauraki regions with an intensity similar to that which smashed the Thames Coast in 2018. Local Civil Defence officials have been blunt in their prediction on the coming storm front and its potential to create havoc. Thames Coromandel Controller, Garry Towler, said the […]
