David Bruce

Two new trustees have been elected to the board of the Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust, which owns and operates 17 historic buildings in Oamaru, most in the Harbour and Tyne Sts historic precinct.

Paper and legal roads through rural land are shown by Walking Access' Otago Southland field adviser Noel Beggs (second from right) to (from left) Evelyn Taylor, of Tapui, Ray Fox, of Oamaru, and Bev Bagrie, of Mid Canterbury, at a Rural Women event at the North Otago A&P Showgrounds in Oamaru on Thursday.

Tea towels and television cook Richard Till are just some of many attractions at the annual Totara Estate Victorian Farm Comes Alive festival tomorrow.

Fears heritage buildings in the Oamaru historic precinct would be at risk during an earthquake and require a major injection of money to protect them have been partly allayed by an interim report from consulting engineers to the Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust.

The Waimate District Council has done all it can to inform people about plans to spend up to $3.8 million redeveloping the Waimate Sports stadium. Now, it awaits their verdict.

They may be 72 years apart in age, but Lachlan Brookes and Ian Catto share one thing in common - a love of cricket.

There will be a big salmon run next Saturday at Glenavy, but there will not be any smoked salmon resulting from the catches.

''Fort Wanbrow'' could be created on Cape Wanbrow as part of a draft landscaping plan which also includes mountain bike and walking tracks, observation points and wetland plantings to replace pine trees being clear-felled.

Waimate residents today have their last chance to see what all the fuss is about - how their existing, run-down and limited-use sports stadium will fit into a new facility that could cost them up to $3.8 million.

Hugh and Trixie Muldrew's relationship might have had a rocky start, but it nonetheless led to 65 years of marriage.

When the Hampden fire siren went off yesterday at 2.27pm, Jody Robinson told a friend she was visiting she ''hates that noise''.

Motorists speeding past stopped school buses better beware - there could be more than Waitaki Valley children on board.

People will get a say from today on the Waitaki District Council's 2014-15 annual plan and budget, which proposes to increase its total rates take by 2.6% and includes a major rise in spending on rural roads.

Waimate Mayor Craig Rowley (foreground, left) and New Zealand Motor Caravan Association South Canterbury branch chairman Ken Batchelor celebrate with South Canterbury members earlier this week Waimate being declared only the second South Island district to be ''motorhome-friendly''.