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• Skifield crews to hog limelight

  QUEENSTOWN’S skifield crews are about to star in a new reality TV show, airing on Bravo.

• Storage needed

  SHOWBIZ Queenstown chair Marty Newell’s on the hunt for someone willing to store a 20-foot container, holding all four Audrey II puppets and the set from this year’s show.

• Q’towners up for Otago Sports gongs

  SNOWBOARDING coach Sean Thompson’s in the running to make it two from two in this year’s Otago Sports Awards.

• Thunderous start

  AFTER a great start to their season in Dunedin, Queenstown’s SkyCity Stampede ice hockey team play Auckland development team, Mako, on home ice this weekend.

• Hospo eminence

  A HOST of Queenstowners have made the cut in the 25th Hospitality New Zealand Awards for Excellence

• Wrecking Rec Ground?

  WAKATIPU Rugby Club life member Phil Wilson’s demanding Queenstown’s council provide more information to the club about rumours the Queenstown Rec Ground — their home field — will be used as a construction yard in future.

• ‘A world-class airport at an appropriate scale’

  QUEENSTOWN Airport CEO Glen Sowry likens the raft of projects signalled in its draft masterplan to a ‘‘game of Tetris with a live airport’’.

• Next Connecting funding round set to open

  THE next Connecting Communities funding round for local mental and wellbeing initiatives, aiming to give communities a boost this winter, opens on June 5.

• Snowbunnies’ joy

  AS the cost of living continues to bite, it’s a fair bet eager snowbunnies will be out for bargains during this Sunday’s annual Whakatipu Ski Club Sale.

• Milburn brothers dominate tennis awards

  MILBURN brothers Kai, 16, and Dan, 15, predictably took the major honours at the Queenstown Tennis Club’s 2022/ ’23 prizegiving held at club sponsor Lone Star restaurant last Sunday.

Featured documents

• Digital nomads’ Covid refuge

  QUEENSTOWN may become the long-term home for a world-travelling Canadian family who’ve been ‘‘happily stuck’’ in New Zealand since the first Covid lockdown....

• Matt Wong, 44 iFLY Indoor Skydiving Queenstown owner/ managing directorMary Weston Steve Chernishov, 41 educatorEsther Whitehead, 47 Thrivable.design inclusive sustainability educatorClaire Turnham, 41 advocate, educator, campaignerPeter Newport Niki Gladding, 47 councillorTony DornerGavin Bartlett, 50 engineer

  1.Our district is facing a number of challenges, many of which have an engineering aspect to them. I am offering my skills, training and experience to be part of a council team that is able to deal with these complex problems to achieve the best outcomes for our district....

• Moving us towards a regenerative tourism futureYOURWORD

  COVID-19 has thrown us into a new world of closed borders, bubbles and health and safety protocols over this past year, and while we’ve all been ‘‘re-imagining’’, ‘‘pivoting’’ and crystal ball-polishing to the best of our ability, the ride will be rocky for some time yet....

• More headwinds to face before return to ‘normal’YOURWORD

  WE all accept we don’t wish to see our health system overrun by throwing open the borders....

• Dining out in hospo-tech world

  IT was former Queenstown restaurant Solera Vino that sparked a business idea for Mat Weir....

• Massive issues for new mayor

  WHOMEVER the next Queenstown mayor is, they will be contending with ‘‘massive’’ issues for the district — not related to the Covid recovery....

• Massive issues for new mayor

  WHOMEVER the next Queenstown mayor is, they will be contending with ‘‘massive’’ issues for the district — not related to the Covid recovery....

• More headwinds to face before return to ‘normal’YOURWORD

  WE all accept we don’t wish to see our health system overrun by throwing open the borders....

• Coronet Peak’s driving force

  GROWING up in Dunedin, a young John Davies visited Queenstown during school holidays with his parents, who built one of the first houses at Lake Hayes, to ski at Coronet Peak — graced only with a single-person rope tow....

• Housing Minister Megan Woods on ...

  Whether rental properties are disappearing from Queenstown’s housing...