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Dan Hutchinson 02/04/2026 Dan Hutchinson 02/04/2026

Letter: Central residents wake to big rigs

For some time now the big truck parking in town overnight is nothing less than a nightmare.

Kim Manunui 19/12/2025 Kim Manunui 19/12/2025

From the editor Dan Hutchinson: Survive ‘till ‘25’ was the call this time last year and that was always going to be too many punctuation marks.

Dan Hutchinson 22/05/2025 Dan Hutchinson 22/05/2025

Every day, I can’t help marvelling at this place.

Dan Hutchinson 13/02/2025 Dan Hutchinson 13/02/2025

There’s a rule in journalism that if you write a story about how dry the weather has been, it will invariably rain.