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• Guide to naming your woolly warrior

  When it comes to buying a ram, there’s plenty to ponder.

• Dose dogs against sheep measles

  Farmers are being urged to keep up to date with measures to control C. ovis — sheep measles — after the Ovis Management programme reported a spike in infection rates.

• Special award for athlete Mia

  Mia Thomson is the recipient of the annual Paraparaumu Beach School Board Outstanding Achiever Award.

• Farming pilot gets $1m funding boost

  Evan Potter says every farmer has paddocks they aren’t making money from.

• Benefits to health centre expansion

  The Kāpiti Health Advisory Group (a Kāpiti Coast District Council advisory committee) is proposing that the existing services at the Health New Zealand owned Kāpiti Health Centre in Paraparaumu be expanded into a polyclinic.

• Community, housing to benefit

  Kāpiti Coast District Council is supporting six local community projects that aim to increase access to community and affordable housing in the district.

• Mayor unhappy over toll

  Kāpiti Mayor Janet Holborow has expressed disappointment in the Government’s decision to place tolls on the new Ōtaki to north of Levin four-lane highway.

• ADAS refresh

  Yes, sometimes carmakers do listen. After media and customer feedback about the overzealous nature of its advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), GWM has announced it’s made significant revisions to the way they work on two models.

• ‘Seeing miracles happen daily’

  What are your thoughts about the 25th-anniversary milestone?

• Planner urges change to consented design

  Aconsultant planner is encouraging the developer of a proposed subdivision in Ōtaki to amend a consent design and get on with construction.

Featured documents

• Teenagers share their stories of

  An ordinary urban street is abuzz with foot traffic heading in and out of the Kāpiti Youth Support (KYS) building in Paraparaumu. Inside, lives are being saved....

• Society challenges tender process, council responds

  The Kāpiti Coast District Council has responded to a press release by the Kāpiti Improvement Society which was critical of a council press release (published in last week’s edition) about seeking a lead contractor for the Te Uruhi development at Paraparaumu Beach....

• Flow of information important as flow of water with reforms COMMENT

  The Government’s Three Waters Reform proposal is a complex beast and there are a range of considerations. These include the financial model underpinning the case for change, and the time and effort to transition to the proposed four water service entity (WSE) model....

• COMMENT Collaboration of partners holds water

  We’ve seen the public conversation around the Government’s Three Waters reform ramp up in recent weeks as councils across Aotearoa have convened to formulate their feedback on the proposed four water service entity model. Kāpiti is no different in this respect but, while much of the conversation...

• Showman’s magical journey from shy kid to master illusionist

  Let’s begin at the beginning, how old were you when you first discovered magic and saw it as something you could do? I was 12. I was actually a very shy kid, very introverted, and I didn’t learn to read until I was 12. My mother was a school principal so she was really worried by this. She took me...

• Winning short story competition entries

  Second placeJudge’s comments: Clever and intriguing — a quirky and exhilarating imagined future where books are elevated to their rightful status as high currency, but with the inevitable dystopian elements that come with extreme government control in a capitalist system. The originality and well...

• Teenagers share their stories of

  An ordinary urban street is abuzz with foot traffic heading in and out of the Kāpiti Youth Support (KYS) building in Paraparaumu. Inside, lives are being saved....

• Transmission Gully What you need to know

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• Winning short story competition entries

  Second placeJudge’s comments: Clever and intriguing — a quirky and exhilarating imagined future where books are elevated to their rightful status as high currency, but with the inevitable dystopian elements that come with extreme government control in a capitalist system. The originality and well...

• ‘I broke down and wept for an hour’

  Warning: This story refers to suicide and mental...