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11 days ago

'This is not the way to finish my life', octogenarian says

The Team Reporter from Hamilton Press

After “intolerable” behaviour from a neighbour, a Kāinga Ora tenant locks herself indoors most days.

The woman is in her 80s and has spent 15 years in the Hamilton East spot, but says it “feels like a prison” due to a neighbour of three years.

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6 days ago

Are there roads you don't like to drive on in the Waikato?

Libby Totton Reporter from Waikato Times

Once a year Jeff Penno removes drawing pins from a wall map pinpointing serious and fatal crashes his crews have attended, and starts again.

It’s a poignant reminder that not all our roads are up to the standard of the Waikato Expressway - which is so safe the Waikato road policing manager doesn’t need to deploy his team there regularly.

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11 days ago

Have you been past the old theatre lately?

Libby Totton Reporter from Waikato Times

It was a spectacle that would have thrilled anyone’s inner three-year-old.

And, on Tuesday afternoon, some actual three and two-year-olds were lucky enough to be among those looking on as a pair of gigantic orange demolition excavators tore into the northern wall of Hamilton’s Founders Theatre in the manner of ravenous monsters.

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13 hours ago

Matariki

The Team from Megan Smith & Co.

Mānawatia a Matariki ki a koutou katoa 🌟

Enjoy this time with your whānau, sharing kai and reflecting on the year that has been and setting aspirations for the year to come.

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