Waitaki Boys High School will next year have to continue without almost a century's worth of teaching experience, after it lost the services of several senior teaching staff in the second half of the 2012 school year.
The Waitaki Recreation Centre has reported an improvement in its finances.
Entries for the Oamerican Car Show, which takes place on February 7, are already being received from enthusiasts from as far away as parts of the North Island.
The annual Cricket 8s Festival in Oamaru is growing in popularity and will be staged again next year, after the event attracted eight North Otago primary schools.
Waitaki residents showing an ''outstanding spirit of community and service'' were recognised at the 2012 Waitaki District Council Citizens Awards on Tuesday evening.
A new $750,000 irrigation buffer pond, designed to improve water quality in Oamaru, has been officially opened.
Irrigators, power companies and mountaineers could all be affected if climate change leads to changes in snow levels.
A salmon farm on the Tekapo hydro canal is preparing for a ''one-in-50 year'' storm, when the canal closes in January to allow Genesis Energy to carry out repairs to leaking sections of the waterway.
Repairs to fix leaks in the Tekapo power canal will start next month, but will take more than a year to complete at a cost of more than $125 million.
Oamaru shoppers are promised "an immense shopping experience" on Saturday, December 15, when a Shop Local Market Day is held to draw Christmas trade into the town.
A group of Waitaki businessmen who were just weeks away from beginning erosion protection work to shore up a coastal section of Waianakarua Rd are dismayed that parts of the roadside were swept into the sea earlier this week.
New legislation passing through Parliament could make it harder for new irrigation schemes and other large projects in Otago to gain council investment.
Parents in Oamaru are being urged to register their interest in enrolling their children at a new kindergarten, before it opens next year.
Oamaru has been chosen by Statistics New Zealand to act as a "guinea pig" during the 2013 census, to decide if a new online census system can be rolled out nationally in 2018.
After five years of hosting a free community Christmas Day dinner, the Orwell Street Church in Oamaru is hoping to once again share a bit of Yuletide cheer with local residents this year.
New cost-saving measures and the scrapping of council-funded road safety courses in schools are expected to result in a lower-than-expected rate rise in Waitaki.
Four months on from the closure of Kurow's only bank, some elderly residents are still making weekly 120km round-trips to the nearest bank in Oamaru, because they are struggling to use eftpos cards rather than cash.
Federated Farmers is warning against a possible "witch-hunt" against dairy farmers, after a new study of water quality in the Kakanui catchment found it failed to meet national guidelines.
Passenger trains could start running regularly between Dunedin and Oamaru, but only if a second trial trip can repeat the success of the Taieri Gorge Railway's Silver Fern railcar's first trial run to Oamaru on Sunday.
Due to the sluggish recovery of the property market and a need to re-think how council-owned buildings are managed, the Waitaki District Council will tomorrow discuss the funding of its property portfolio.
