December 18, 2009
The brand logo and tagline for Hastings has been decided, after the Hastings Council weighed competing proposals from local agencies as well as community feedback. As you see from our headline, the selected tagline is “Hastings … Heart of Hawke’s Bay.” This tagline suggests both a sense of affirmative spirit and a physical location. And, [...]
December 17, 2009
The Regional Council has had to step in to resuscitate the scheme to stop the release of Waipukurau and Waipawa sewage into the Tukituki. This project would save the financial butt of CHB ratepayers (as well as improve the health of the Tuki) by providing a HBRC-subsidised solution to pump treated wastewater safely onto land [...]
December 16, 2009
Angela Hair of Baywatch is organizing a Christmas clean-up of the lower Tukituki this coming Sunday, December 20th. Please help out if you can. Heaps of rubbish have accumulated in the Red Bridge area and elsewhere — from beer cans to abandoned cars. (I don’t think Angela is expecting us to carry the car away [...]
December 14, 2009
Here is another installment in the heroic saga of Lawrencus Yulus, as recounted by Brendan Webb. In the initial chapter, we left Lawrencus Yulus, champion of the amalgamation of Hustings and Napierion, hurtling in his chariot on the way to Wellingtonius. There he was to take his cause up with Roddus Hidus, Minister of Regional [...]
December 13, 2009
I hope you’ve taken a look at the 100 90 Top Buzzmakers. And maybe given some thought to nominating a few more to give us a full one hundred. Meantime, from the current BayBuzz Digest, here are some other exceptional people to meet. We asked Mark Sweet and Pat Magill to suggest some people who [...]
December 12, 2009
The geologist carefully picked up the deeply tarnished plate. He rubbed some of the dirt off and uncovered a name: Lawrencia. It confirmed his instincts that this pile of rubble and half-completed seating was some form of monument, or temple, to the reign of the regional governor known as Lawrencus Yulus. He guessed that the [...]
December 12, 2009
This is the season when columnists produce “best of the year” lists – best books, best films etc. Well, I don’t have “best” artists but, for what it is worth, I have ten local artists whose work I have found especially engaging this year. Chris Bryant of Toi Mairangi takes strength from past artists and [...]
- Andrew Reyngoud on DAM(N)! A half-billion dollar water storage scheme
- Margaret Donnelly on WATER. What's all the fuss about?
- Elizabeth Sisson on 'Dump Council' campaign
- Paul Bailey on Cows in Karamu Stream
- Rob Pharazyn on Cows in Karamu Stream
- John J Harrison on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Anne Parker on Let's get Council meetings online
- Stuart Nash on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Kylie Fowler on Let's get Council meetings online
- Paul Bailey on Let's get Council meetings online
- ‘Dump Council’ campaign
- Cows in Karamu Stream
- Questions for HB ‘regional study’ director
- Let’s get Council meetings online
- 5 mayors in HB … ‘Yeah right’ says Tui
- Crucial Environment Court hearing underway
- Regional Council warns on pollution standards
- Democracy in action?
- 1+1+1 = 3 hours
- Councils’ reorganization survey results
