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Grahame Christian has today announced that he is no longer seeking a position on Council. He was a candidate for the Mercury Bay Ward of Thames Coromandel District Council. Earlier today he issued the following statement on the Whiti Chit Chat Facebook Group. “For personal reasons I have decided to withdraw my nomination as a […]
Date Area Incident 05.08.2022 Coromandel Crew tasked to Coromandel to assist a male patient in his 80’s suffering a medical complaint and in a serious condition. Transportation to hospital by helicopter wasn’t required and crew returned to base. 06.08.2022 Thames Crew tasked to assist with the interhospital transfer of a female patient in her 70’s […]
A couple of fisherman ended up in trouble off the rocks at the southern end Whiritoa beach last night. The incident happened early last evening when one of them fell in the water while fishing and was rescued by the other. They then were unable to get back to the beach and Police were alerted […]
Coastguard Whitianga received a call at 12:30pm yesterday, Monday 29 August that the Mercury Bay Freighter was in trouble and sinking off Devils Point. A local cray boat also responded to the call. The skipper of a 40-foot vessel was rescued by crew on a commercial boat after his vessel struck trouble when travelling from […]
A team of Whitianga firefighters are doing Auckland highest stair climb tomorrow and for a great cause – Leukaemia and Blood Cancer. They have 5 firefighters in the event – Ian Cox, Ange Maclardy, Adam Collier, Karina Bergshoeff and Sean King. At 58 years young, Ian is the oldest of the Whitianga team doing tomorrow’s […]
Yesterday we introduced the Never Surrender Boxing Health and Fitness in Thames. It’s a charitable Trust that provides boxing lessons to young and old, male and female in Thames. They have had some amazing success with producing New Zealand’s first female boxing medallist and many other success stories. The club has more female members than […]
We recently published a couple stories about the problem of violence and specifically young people involved in violent incidents in and around Thames. It was in response to Goldfields Mall manager and Mayoral candidate John Freer being attacked in the mall. We followed the story with another one concerning young children being approached in Thames […]
Steve Hart is not an uncommon name so it’s no surprise to have two Steve Harts (at least) on the Coromandel. What is probably unique is that they are two very different people and one of them Steve Hart from Kuaotunu wants to make it clear that he’s not the Steve Hart who is from […]
Playcentre Messy Play Week is a free event for families with babies and pre-school age children being held from Monday 22 August to Friday 26 August at Playcentres across Aotearoa. Centres in our region include Coromandel, Whangamata, Whitianga, Tairua, Thames-Parawai, Ngatea, Turua, Paeroa, Te Aroha, Waihi and Waihi Beach. Playcentre Messy Play Week is a […]
On 27 October 2021 Local Government Minister Nania Mahuta confirmed that the Three Waters Reform would now be mandatory for all councils. Central Government is moving ahead with the formation of four water entities across the country. There’s now a transitional process happening so that the Entities will be managing three waters by 2024. In […]
