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- Serious social hockey
IT may be a good excuse to get together and have some banter, but the competition’s still ice-cold when it comes to the annual Battle for the Queenstown Cup.
- Scottish knees-up in Arrowtown
DANCING, eating, drinking, banter and craic are on the menu for Saturday’s second ‘Arrowtown Burns Supper & Ceilidh’.
- Such a special lady
‘POSITIVITY’ and ‘caring’ are words that perfectly sum up Queenstown’s oldest resident, Clarice May, who died early this month, aged 101.
- Let it whipLet it whip
CHRISTCHURCH’S Saul Sanders defies gravity during Sunday’s Whip Off, part of the Queenstown Bike Festival
- Long water leak repair delayed by staff constraints
DESPITE imposing water restrictions, Queenstown’s council took two-and-a-half weeks — and fielded 15 public ‘notifications’ — before fixing a leak on the main Kelvin Heights road this week.
- Q’town’s champion trailblazer
ONE of the key people behind Queenstown’s growth as a mountain biking destination not only has the skills to build trails but also the vision to link them up.
- Birds beat best
TUCKER Beach Wildlife Management Reserve’s proving the perfect breeding ground for native birds, boasting the best breeding season in years for some.
- Top-10 finish for Robinson
QUEENSTOWN ski racer Alice Robinson finished in eighth place at the FIS Giant Slalom World Cup held in Italy overnight Tuesday, her top GS world cup result in almost two years.
- Waitangi celebration returns
A NEW organising crew’s behind this year’s Whakatipu for Te Ra O Waitangi (Waitangi Day) celebrations — and they’re pumped to put on something for everyone.
- Two convictions in five days
A QUEENSTOWN builder was caught drink-driving twice in five days — the second time on The Remarks skifield road in an unplated vehicle.
Featured documents
- 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....
- 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....
- 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....
- It’s just another whack with a bommy knocker
THAT escalated quickly....
- Young travellers and the re-imagination of tourismYOURWORD
ILOVE Italy, and have returned no less than five times in the 20-plus years since first visiting as a 24-year-old in the 1990s....
- It’s just another whack with a bommy knocker
THAT escalated quickly....
- 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....
- 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....