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• Fire at a Cromwell laundromat

  Cromwell’s Pacific Linen Laundromat is seen taped off following a fire on Monday night.

• New Hall of Fame part of sports awards

  Forsyth Barr Central Otago Sports Awards received nominations from a wide range of sports including sailing, equestrian games, ice hockey and rowing this year.

• Anzac services held in Central Otago today:

• Rather than blame an insecure housing market for the lack of sales in stage 4 of its Dunstan Park Alexandra subdivision, the Central Otago District Council needs to look at the product it is offering in stage 4, namely tiny, very narrow sections not much bigger than a standard house and intended for terrace type co-joined apartments .

• Dunstan’s new principal named

  Otago Boys’ High School deputy rector Andrew King will take up the new role of Dunstan High School principal later this year.

• Jack Hyde, war doctor and hero

  Author Anne Hyde Nelson, of Wairarapa, has recently written a biography of her great uncle John Mickle Hyde, formerly of Clyde. Today, on Anzac Day, she recounts his journey with The News readers.

• Last of the summer fruit

  Roberts Family Orchard baristas and shop assistants Tracy Gill (left) and Virginia Pine and owner-manager Tasha Roberts (centre) display some of the last summer fruit available from their shop in Earnscleugh.

• Local martial arts athlete back on the world stage

  She’s dislocated her father’s jaw and has beaten her coach — but last week, Cromwell martial arts athlete Shyla Mulholland, 14, left for Hawaii, where she would grapple with girls her own age and weight at a world championship competition.

• Paddon attends autocross taster

  One of New Zealand’s best rally drivers was on hand in Springvale over the weekend, showing the ropes to autocross newcomers.

• Another profit for blossom festival

  The weather was not at its best but it did not have too much impact on the bottom line of last year’s Alexandra Blossom Festival.

Featured documents

• Writers festival hears of the search for a sunken ship

  Where is the wreck of the General Grant? This question keeps adventurers Cristina Sanders and Bill Day awake at night. Marjorie Cook reports....

• Living with the good and bad of social media

  In a Netsafe report, findings showed one in four children (9-17 years old) said they had been bothered or upset by something that happened online, in the last year. This week in Behind the Facade, Aspen Bruce spoke with members of Mount Aspiring College’s Wellbeing Committee — Harry Gilbertson,...

• End of an era draws near for ‘thesyndicate’

  Their families have headed for the hills every summer since 1897. As a chapter of New Zealand’s rich pastoral history moves nearer to a close, Sally Rae talks to Maniototo farmers about why the Mt Ida Syndicate has been so special to them....

• Roxburgh man convicted of poaching ‘just doesn’t care’ — judge

  Two Roxburgh men have been sentenced to community detention after they were caught red-handed while hunting unlawfully near Lawrence....

• MINI MAXIMUM

  It sounded like a cracking adventure, and it was. Illustrations editor Stephen Jaquiery joined a Mini rally to Haast, driving a former News Mini pickup, only to be saved by a raw egg....

• Changing lives and landscapes

  As the pumped hydro project at Lake Onslow is investigated, Dunedin artist Matthew Galloway takes a look at the last big hydro project that changed Central Otago forever. He tells Rebecca Fox about his examination of the history and legacy of the Clyde Dam....

• Success in war on rabbits

  As rabbit populations run rampant throughout Otago and Southland, one Central Otago community is bucking the trend. ShannonThomson reports....

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• WoolOn event surpasses expectations

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