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Police 1081… solving crime on island time

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One night, one case, zero script. Police 1081 is an improvised comedy-drama set on the not-so-mean streets of Waiheke. Locally loved taxi driver/Detective Ron Husky...

$80,000 funding boost lifts gallery out of ‘survival mode’ to expand...

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Waiheke Community Art Gallery is looking to move out of survival mode and make the most of the large funding boost allocated to them...

Board members clash over housing strategy’s ‘elephant in the room’ ...

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As the Waiheke Local Board voted to adopt the Waiheke Housing Strategy in a recent meeting, board member Paul Walden and chair Cath Handley...

It’s time to switch to fibre as copper retirement nears

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Chorus is advising Waihekeans to switch to fibre internet technology ahead the projected retirement of its copper phone and broadband network by 2030. Of around...

Helipad ban won for Gulf Islands – but not for...

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A packed public gallery applauded as Auckland Council’s Planning and Policy Committee voted to effectively ban helipads in residential areas of Hauraki Gulf Islands...

Housing Trust calls for ‘granny flat’ reform tweaks amid housing crisis

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The Waiheke Community Housing Trust held a hui at the Waiheke Bowling Club last Wednesday 23 July focused on a ‘no-brainer,’ ‘pragmatic’ solution to...

Help the children in Gaza is plea from island mums’...

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Waiheke Mums for Peace group is asking the wider community to help raise funds for the children in Gaza who are in dire need...

Local board backs efforts to track down last stoats

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Ten thousand dollars was recently approved by the Waiheke Local Board towards trapping what some thought might be the island’s ‘last’ stoat. “There’s at least...

Free health warrant of fitness this July

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If nothing puts a spring in your step like getting things ticked off the ‘to do’ list, then a free health ‘warrant of fitness’...

Forty years of Ramming it home

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An emotional curtain raiser at Waiheke Sports Club in celebration of the Rams’ 40th anniversary on Saturday had fans roaring at least as loud...

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