Interview
Health providers took the opportunity to share their views on how services could be better delivered across the region when attending yesterday’s rural health roadshow in Thames. It was the 12th roadshow, this time involving Associate Minister for Health Matt Doocey, the Minister for Rural Communities, Mark Patterson, and local Member of Parliament Scott Simpson. […]
Getting local government voting papers into letterboxes or back into council offices is the plea this week, as of yesterday only 20 percent of residents and ratepayers having had their say. Former chairman of the Coromandel Peninsula Residents and Ratepayers Alliance, Richard Shelford-Woodcock, is one who has taken up the campaign encouraging people to have […]
State Highway 25A the Kopu-Hikuai Road will be closed for urgent road works during daylight hours for two weeks in November. The closure was announced today by the NZ Transport Agency – it will be in place between Monday, November 10 and Friday, November 21. Outside of these hours traffic management will be in play. […]
By John Freer The five new trustees responsible for delivering tourism marketing for the Thames Coromandel and Hauraki Districts have now been in the role for seven months, their chairman Jason Hill is encouraged by the progress to date. Recently Destination Hauraki Coromandel held its annual general meeting, it took the opportunity to update those […]
Locally based Marine Scientist, Riley Elliott, was nothing short of ecstatic by the recent images of ORCA encounters around Mercury Bay. CFM posted incredible images of a baby ORCA coming up to the back of a boat over the weekend. Also over recent days there have been images of OCRA and dolphins swimming around the […]
Two candidates are contesting Thames Coromandel’s seat at the Waikato Regional Council table. Tairua’s Warren Maher currently has the position after winning the right three years ago, up against him is Thames Coast resident Jason Roxburgh. The pair have already spoken at a number of meet the candidate events, CFM has interviewed both touching on […]
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 […]
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. Â […]
