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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 […]
A spike in burglaries and car thefts has police issuing warnings about people taking more care to protect their property. Over recent days two cafes on the Hauraki Plains, Woodturners on State Highway 2 and Bugger at Pipiroa, were broken into with tills being the target. On the south-eastern Coromandel Peninsula there has been an […]
The Mercury Bay Boating Club has been granted a lease for land on Whitianga’s Dundas Street, but now a special general meeting will be held to determine what happens next. Club Commodore Phil Hart told us that while securing the site was positive, the lease conditions came with hefty costs. Rent, which was previously to […]
By John Freer It was almost appropriate that the battlelines associated with this campaign, flowed through right to the final stanza. When Three Waters originated it caused conflict, it did ease a little with the arrival of Local Waters Done Well, then yesterday it was the Thames Coromandel council table which was the venue for […]
By John Freer Over half of the potential voters for the coming local council elections are still to decide who they want as their Thames Coromandel Mayor. According to the results of a recent Curia poll, undertaken by CFM, 54 percent of voters remain unsure of who will get their tick. The poll was conducted […]
