After 27 years as principal of Awapuni School, David Langford retires at the end of the year. He talks to Kim Parkinson about his long career in education. David Langford admits to having mixed feelings about his impending retirement. He had been...
Among the more than 160 artists whose work features in this year's NZ Art Show are two Gisborne painters, a macrophotographer and a still life photography duo. Usually based in Wellington, and with accessibility and affordability at its heart, this...
Birdwatchers flocked to Foxton Beach last weekend to celebrate the spring arrival of migratory birds, including those legendary long-haul flyers, the godwits. Paul Williams from the Horowhenua Chronicle reports
??WHILE most people stoked up the fire and hibernated with books and other cosy indoor pursuits over the winter months, a group of hardy Gisborne women and their obliging husbands were out in all weathers with chainsaws and loppers, fossicking for...
“How might we tell the story of tsunami as a potential risk?” was the question designer Harmony Repia posed as a starting point for a site-specific project for Turanganui a Kiwa-Poverty Bay. The pouwhenua Repia co-designed with people in the...
Regional fish monger Real Fresh bring you a winter-warming smoked fish and spinach tart using their Ahia smoked fish from the people of Ngati Porou. IngredientsFor the filling:400g Ahia® Smoked fish, any sort250ml milk2 bay leaves6 black...
HIS clubmates might be watching the weather like hawks but Poverty Bay Blues Inc president Darren Hart reckons he’s not in the least bit worried.“It looked a bit hairy for a while but even by Sunday it had started to turn for the better,” he...
Salvation Army captains David and Tina McEwen feel blessed they were able to call Gisborne home for seven years. The couple say Gisborne should be proud of its community spirit. They spoke to Sophie Rishworth ahead of their move to Dunedin in...
About 30 Gisborne enthusiasts spent more than two-and-a-half years restoring the first motor caravan to have been registered with the New Zealand Motor Caravan Association. The converted 1928 Reo Speedwagon was unveiled yesterday morning at the...
The beach at Roberts Road provided the setting for a segment of a Black Slate music video and now the UK reggae band is returning to the EC to perform at Shipwreck next week. Black Slate was one of the most popular acts at the 2017 East Coast Vibes...
Just remember that a well-prepared soil or potting mix and regular feeding along the way makes a big difference to your plants' overall performance. Before you plant out, make sure that you prepare your soil well with Yates Dynamic Lifter Organic...
ALL around New Zealand farmers have been pitted against everyone else in the battleground over fresh water, but a community group on the Mahia Peninsula has taken a much more collaborative approach. Once a month the Whangawehi Catchment Management...
IF there was one thing Auckland artist John Reynolds longed to do aboard the HMNZS Otago as he and eight queasy colleagues sailed north towards Raoul Island, it was to broadcast the daily 6.45am call on the ship’s tannoy: “Wakey wakey wakey! All...
Gisborne men start up their own prostate cancer support group to provide opportunity for men to talk, share experiences
What we’re gonna do right here is go back, intones the intro to The Jimmy Castor Bunch’s 1972 funk song Troglodyte.“Way back, back into time.” And that is exactly what James Packman and Walter “Wiz” Walsh will do this month with their...
Have you ever visited Bali and been frazzled by the barrage of hawkers hustling for business? Drained by the incessant honking of scooters and cars perhaps? Then consider this: Next time you yearn for the tropics — try some gentle relief on nearby...
Fifteen years have gone by, but Frankie Boyd vividly remembers his kidney transplant of 2007 and his fears that he would die.“I saw people to the left of me dying, I saw people to the right of me dying.”Mr Boyd was in hospital on one of many...
A Natural Year follows writer Wendyl Nissen's life in the peaceful New Zealand countryside over one year. It's the story of what happens in her garden, her kitchen and her life over twelve months, and the thoughts inspired by each passing season. She...
The Weekender takes a look at the phenomenal momentum Gisborne Intermediate’s mara kai programme has gained, thanks to food technology teacher Tina Swann . . .A new garden-to-table programme being promoted to schools nationwide is nothing new at...
The art of flamenco guitar indirectly led former TV journalist Ian Sinclair into war reportage — and back again, and now the musician is on his way to Gisborne for his My Secret Life concert. Probably best known as a roving reporter with the dream...
“I use the words ‘world psychedelic’ — but I change that quite a lot,” says Carnivorous Plant Society frontman Finn Scholes of the genre-eating band’s sound.“We have a lot of material and these (the band’s musicians) aren’t the...
by Lindsey Bahr, AP Film WriterContrary to what Game of Thrones might have you believe, not all dragons are agents of destruction. In the newest offering from Walt Disney Animation, Raya and the Last Dragon, they are kind, full of magic and, when...
It’s always a good sign when a restaurant is full of local people who are chattering away excitedly about the new dishes on the menu. We ended up at Doi Ka Noi in Vientiane by default when our guide discovered the restaurant on our itinerary was...
New Year garden blitzHolidays are the perfect time for whipping your garden into shape. Here are a few simple ways to spruce up outdoor areas:' Trimming hedges — give hedges a light trim to create a lovely crisp look. For less formal hedges and...
It's sweet pea sowing time, so now is your chance to dream ahead and decide where you would like to have this gorgeous flower on show. Tall-growing sweet pea varieties that are ideal for creating walls of colour include delicately-patterned Yates...
Although possessed of a fine turn of phrase, even in a brief phone conversation, Gisborne woman Anna Dolan’s attempts at writing poetry have not gone much further than little ditties. Until now, that is. Two poems Ms Dolan submitted to Landing Press...
A MAN walks into an art gallery and, apart from a fire extinguisher, a light switch, a couple of plastic chairs and a deflated ball, sees nothing in the room.“Where’s the art?” he says to his companion.“There”, his friend points to the...
If you are running out of space for plants on your shelves and sills, don’t worry, just look up! Imagine all the available real estate for future hanging jungles. Indoor plants are very popular at the moment and there’s no reason to stop...
An impending adventure looms in April, tackling 300-odd kilometres on the Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail, a rather daunting prospect, which has required a concerted effort to re-acquaint myself with the bicycle. The two-wheeler has gathered dust in the...
The Last Supper is over, Jesus takes his disciples to a garden to sit with him but Judas has betrayed him and armed soldiers take the Messiah away. This is the starting point of Baroque genius Johann Sebastian Bach’s oratorio St John Passion. The...