Dunstan High School Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD) group members (top from left) Jessica Monaghan (15), Kate Mulvihill (15), Emma Wiffen (15), Pip McNabb (14), Shenae Ruffell (14), and (bottom from left) Lucy Allan (14), and Rebecca Pine (17), paint a mural facing the Stadium Tavern car park in Alexandra.
Alexandra's historic bridge piers are now officially owned by the Vincent Community Board, which will work with other groups to raise funds to upgrade the structures.
Registrations for the 2009 Otago Goldfields Cavalcade are pouring in from throughout the country and overseas, organiser Roberta Laraman says.
Central Otago residents are being urged to install and properly maintain smoke alarms after one was credited with saving the lives of a family in Alexandra recently.
Seven residential sections at the $42 million Perriam Cove development near Cromwell are to be auctioned during a defaulting mortgagee auction this month.
The Alexandra Golf Club boasts the best presented course in Otago and Southland, according to the Southern Turf Management Association (STMA).
Informal searches for a 16-year-old Dunedin teenager presumed to have drowned in the Clutha River, near Roxburgh, three weeks ago have found nothing.
This year's Alexandra Blossom Festival is thought to have generated about $400,000 less for the local economy than the 2007 festival, which pulled in about $1.4 million on its opening day.
Home and community detention are now options within Alexandra, Clyde, and Cromwell for people convicted of crimes within Central Otago.
Drinking water supplies at Roxburgh and Lake Roxburgh Village may be upgraded earlier than previously proposed.
Wilding pines are posing the biggest threat ever seen to the South Island's high country, say Central Otago farmers and land owners.
Central Otago's recycling centre is struggling to sell materials it's collecting from throughout the district because of the global economic situation.
Otago's recreational four-wheel-drive community is worried vehicle access to some of the region's high country will be closed when the Department of Conservation's proposed Oteake Conservation Park is formed.
The Cromwell Golf Club needs a new board chairman after John Olssen resigned.
The Cromwell course could become part of New Zealand's golfing answer to the Melbourne Sand Belt, according to golf architect Greg Turner.
Four Goldfields Primary School pupils are taking their training to the next level, in anticipation of being accepted to compete in the South Island primary school athletic sports championship in Christchurch next month.
The fire risk throughout Central Otago is high, due in part to some of the worst "fuel-loading" seen in recent years, Principal Rural Fire Officer Owen Burgess says.
A new police boss at Cromwell is due to start work on December 22, replacing the station's former leader, Sergeant Steve Ereckson, who retired from the position in August.
Spectators along Cromwell's Lake Dunstan were treated to a display of daring and speed throughout the weekend during the first series of the national formula one power boat regatta.
A most successful Alexandra Thyme Festival came to a close yesterday when 40 people sat down to a three-course long lunch in Pioneer Park.
