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Rhythm and Vines festival clean-up may take two weeks

Up to 200 Gisborne community members will spend about two weeks cleaning up the sprawling 700,000sq m Waiohika Estate and nearby areas after about 20,000 festival-goers flocked there for Rhythm and Vines

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Log loading at Gisborne port back on after southerly blast

Log loading at Eastland Port resumed at the weekend after the ocean surge caused by last week’s southerly abated. The SE Cardi got alongside the wharf first on Saturday to take on logs before heading to Napier on Sunday to load further cargo...

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Tairāwhiti’s paid lifeguards hit the beaches for extended season

Tairāwhiti’s council-funded surf lifeguards officially kicked off the summer season on Monday with full site inductions across the city’s patrolled beaches Wainui, Waikanae, and Midway. The team, made up primarily of local lifeguards, will...

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Successful Alzheimer’s walk draws 72 participants

Bring on 2025 is the call after a successful Te Kurī-Young Nicks Head Walk for Alzheimer’s fundraiser. Those who experienced the 2024 edition so enjoyed viewing the native birds and tuatara that they are already looking forward to next year’s...

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