Giving Alexandra's Molyneux Park ''room to grow'' and making it a smokefree area, like the district's playgrounds, were two topics which dominated discussion by the Vincent Community Board this week as it considered submissions to the draft management plan for the park.
Concerns about septic tank discharges degrading groundwater quality in and near Clyde have prompted calls to build a town sewerage scheme ''sooner rather than later''.
Police have praised the majority of motorists on Central Otago's snowy roads over the weekend, with one or two notable exceptions.
A Central Otago emergency operations centre, set up on Friday, has been "stood down'' after weather in the region improved over the weekend. Although the Maniototo and Ida Valley are...
Despite 2m-high snowdrifts and their camper van being almost engulfed in the white stuff, Lesley and John Ecksmann were very happy campers yesterday.
Contractors were ''fighting a losing battle'' at times yesterday to keep the Central Otago roading network open in the face of a prolonged snowstorm.
Transpower has an ethical and moral responsibility to either relocate pylons that were a ''blot on the landscape'' at Alexandra, or place the high-voltage lines underground, a district plan change submitter said this week.
The SBS Bank is chasing a former Cromwell businesswoman for a debt of more than $1 million.
Central Otago residents seeking compensation for having transmission lines through their property or for losing control of the land within network corridors proposed under district plan changes, had their hopes dashed yesterday.
A driver stopped by police at Bannockburn on Saturday night allegedly had a breath-alcohol level more than three times above the legal limit and his licence was suspended as a result.
A decision by the Minister for the Environment, Amy Adams, to ban dams on the Nevis River would give the Government some desperately needed ''green points on the board''.
The actions of a few partygoers who threw cans of beer and some rubble at volunteer firefighters called to douse a bonfire at an Alexandra party have disappointed police and the fire brigade.
A trek to Mt Everest Base Camp has given a group of Cromwell College pupils renewed admiration for the feat of Sir Edmund Hillary and great respect for the Sherpa people of Nepal. The nine pupils returned to school yesterday after their ''tr
Otago Daily Times Central Otago reporter Lynda van Kempen has written dozens of stories about Dunstan Hospital's new CT scanner over the past few years, but always as an observer, keeping a distance from the issues and emotion involved. All that changed last week.
The past, present and future will merge this weekend as the Roxburgh Rugby Club marks its 125th anniversary.
An opponent says granting consent for an Earnscleugh property to be subdivided ''makes nonsense'' of the Central Otago district plan.
Central's Best Young Driver Paul Duncan says the contest improved his skills markedly and it was a bonus to be able to ''put a couple of cars sideways''.
St John's Church is on the market, after almost a century as the focal point for Anglicans' worship, weddings, funerals and christenings in Millers Flat.
A sting operation on synthetic cannabis and tobacco retailers in Central Otago this week revealed all were working within the law and not selling to underage smokers.
Dunstan Hospital's CT scanner will open at the start of June ''debt-free'' thanks to the fund-raising efforts of the wider Central Otago community. A cheque for $100,000 was presented to
