Local Issues
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
By John Freer It was labelled as a lolly scramble by one councillor, and from a bystander’s observation, a debacle may have been a more apt description – this when it came to handing out Thames Coromandel event development funding yesterday. The Thames Coromandel District has a policy where its district fund is intended to […]
Have your say on a call made recently at a public meeting, to drop the plan to establish high protection no fishing (except customary) areas off the south-eastern Coromandel Peninsula coast. The meeting was attended by both recreational and commercial fishermen who maintained the zones would have little to no impact on restoring fish stocks […]
By John Freer Fishermen concerned about the future of their sport and recreation around the Coromandel Peninsula, aim to be heard on want needs to happen beneath the waves. Their targets are the political leaders responsible for the marine protection bill which is currently going through parliament. Fishermen believe they are not being heard. This […]
By John Freer An olive branch with the aim of bringing together the Coromandel Alliance Association and Thames Coromandel District Councillors to establish a constructive relationship. It came during an interview between Mayor, Len Salt, and Alliance chairman, Richard Shelford-Woodcock. The alliance represents a collective of residents and ratepayer associations it claimed that council was […]
By John Freer Significant shifts in the local media landscape over recent months as Coromandel’s local radio station, CFM prepares to blow out the candles on its sixth birthday cake. Changes, which have sparked reactions from our local community leaders, started back in March when after 45 years, the Hauraki Herald suddenly stopped publishing. Then […]
