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COMMENT: Another victory for people power

Great things are possible when concerned residents band together to take action on behalf of their local community. We saw that recently when a group...

All aboard for Father’s Day

One of the items in the model display at the East City Wesleyan Father's Day display on Sunday is a 5 inch (12.7cm) scale...

Party candidates bring in moon festival

Local elections are an exciting time with hundreds of billboards going up at every roundabout and corner of the street; party leaders, ministers and...

Rat expert visits restoration project

It’s not often a world-renowned expert in pest management, specialising in rats, visits a local school. That’s exactly what happened last week when New York-based...

Struggles of refugee in children’s book

  Refugees are vulnerable. Unlike immigrants they are “forcibly displaced” to another country, says Millard Rashidi, A Year 13 student at Ormiston Senior College. Millard arrived...

School gets behind Lion King show

Lion King Jr was a Howick Intermediate School musical production that involved all 484 students. Year 8 student Annabelle Harrison writes about the exciting...

UPDATE: Man arrested outside mosque

The police arrest of a wanted man outside a Pakuranga mosque last Friday initially caused alarm about a possible shooter. Media initially reported shots had...

Photographic group after new members

When life gets blurry, adjust your focus For those ‘easties’ who have always wanted to try their hand at photography or those amateur shutterbugs who...

Development potential for old library mooted

Development could be coming for the old Howick Library after all. In the latest agenda from the Howick Local Board, the site of the former...

Art brings colour, history to Fencible Drive

The Fencible Drive paintings are four paintings from a small collection of fund-raising greetings cards used by the Howick Village Association depicting scenes of...
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