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Popular ‘donkey’ Christmas service returns to Holy Trinity

A decades-long popular Christmas Eve family service returns to Holy Trinity Anglican Church this weekend. Covid has put paid to the service in recent years but on Sunday it will be back, complete with a real donkey. The service is mostly a Christmas...

Plea to get rubbish out early on Christmas Day so collectors can get home early

The district’s kerbside rubbish collectors will be operating as usual over the festive season. Rubbish and recycling will be collected as usual on public holidays through the Christmas and New Year period, the council said. “So the guys can get...

Little Engine That Could, made of wood

A wooden train engine has been stationed in the Waikanae Beach playground for the summer. The custom play piece was created by Steph and Ben Millward from Cut Above Sawmilling and Furniture. The council says the playground item will be a temporary...

Community gifts collected for refuge

Gisborne Women’s Refuge representatives have collected the gifts left under the Christmas tree in the foyer of the Gisborne Herald. Every year the Gisborne Herald invites people to donate gifts for a nominated charity, and this year it was the...

‘It’s more about the kaupapa’

The ninth annual Tauawhi No Violence Longboard Classic was held in early December at Northern Makorori, with 37 entrants competing across junior to over-60 grades. The event is the brainchild of Ian “Moti” Procter, who with his friends from the...

Concern high lake levels are causing environmental damage at Waikaremoana

Waikaremoana Boating and Fishing Association is concerned about damage to the environment it says is because of management of the lake levels by Genesis Energy. The energy company runs the Lake Waikaremoana hydropower scheme. Association chairman...

Fieldays drives momentum in agriculture

As another year comes to a close, the New Zealand National Fieldays Society (NZNFS) has unveiled its Annual Report. While still faced with a number of financial challenges as are many in the sector, the analysis of Fieldays 2023 reveals...

Challenging year to end with warmth

A well-deserved summer break has begun for most people, with excitement building in households around the region as families gather and children eagerly await the gifts and whānau fun of Christmas Day. After a year of terrible weather in this...

Backing call for more transparency

This newspaper gives its full backing to the call by councillor Tony Robinson for Gisborne District Council to conduct as many discussions as possible in forums that are open to the public — while noting that this should not even be up for debate...

Culture matters, as does having hope

Meredith Akuhata-Brown If anyone had told me that in 2023 the incoming National Government would prioritise the return of government department names back to English I wouldn’t have believed it — especially when in our region the priority is...

Impressed by Kiwa Pools

We are visiting your lovely region and were privileged to be taken on a tour of the Kiwa Pools complex by Mr Campbell Macgregor. As we entered the building and he explained the meaning of the green stone in the entrance hall, and the interpretation...

EQC claims: 178 resolved, 114 to go

More than 100 Gisborne claims for land damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle are still to be resolved through the Earthquake Commission. Toka Tū Ake EQC chief executive Tina Mitchell said 292 reported Gisborne claims had been generated by Cyclone...

Yachtsman plans to leave after Christmas

The young Auckland solo sailor Seth van Mechelen and his yacht Luna look set to continue their journey south from Gisborne early in the new year. Gisborne Coastguard towed the disabled yacht and 21-year-old Seth into Eastland Port after the big...

Six ‘scholarships’ for Shepherdess Muster

The Shepherdess Muster, a first-of-its-kind festival coming to Motu in February, will be giving away six ticket scholarships to people living in Tairāwhiti or the Ōpōtiki or Wairoa districts. “We’re so stoked to have the opportunity to offer...

Maisey Rika impresses at library

Multi-award-winning singer, songwriter and composer Maisey Rika performed to an admiring crowd at the HB Williams Memorial Library yesterday. Good friend, fellow musician and director of East Coast Music Tyna Keenan had asked Maisey just the week...

Seventh cruise ship to anchor in Bay for a day, tomorrow

The next cruise ship to call into Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty this cruise season has been here only once before several years ago, and only briefly on that day to drop off two unwell passengers. Crystal Symphony will go to anchor in The Bay at around...