Bill Campbell

Palmerston people are upset about a suggestion half of the 22 pensioner housing flats in the town should be sold.

The Waikouaiti community has won a protracted battle to get warning bells and lights installed on the Glasgow St railway crossing in the township.

Four months ago, Dunedin couple John and Margaret Spain were mourning the loss of their beloved 1953 Ford house bus, destroyed in a fire near Lake Mavora.

East Otago High School deputy principal Joyce Whyman retires tomorrow, after 37 years of high school teaching in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand. Newly appointed principal Rick Geerlofs praised Mrs Whyman's "wonderful" work at the year 7 to year 13 high school in Palmerston.

The Highland Horse Haven at Waitati has begun finding new homes for rescued horses.

Rick Geerloffs, the newly appointed principal of East Otago High School, is ‘‘a great fan of NCEA''.

A doubling of the Seasider train service between Dunedin and Palmerston has been confirmed.

Iris Edwards, the oldest resident of Kimberley Rest Home in Palmerston, has been sewing for 60 years. She recently finished her latest quilt, which she sewed in just over nine weeks.

A historic Palmerston bar is to close and Blair Skevington, who was one of New Zealand's youngest hotel proprietors when he took over aged 19, will no longer be running a pub.

Palmerston Lions Club charter members, from left, Colin McFarlane, Murray Holland, Leighton Coutts and "Mac" Service cut the cake at the club's 40th anniversary dinner on Monday night. Watching is Waitaki Mayor Alex Familton.

The procedure for listing a notable tree in the district plan was explained to Waihemo Community Board members this week.

A Palmerston funeral director who raised eyebrows by running a butcher's shop as well as an undertaker's business has decided to retire.

A considerable quantity of rubbish has been dumped on and over a cliff face about 75m from the Moeraki lookout reserve car park.