Sally Rae

Oamaru mansion Pen-y-bryn Lodge is on the market.

Supporters and hecklers, dressed in Victorian garb, are invited to take part in a suffrage march through Oamaru next month.

Harry and Edna Hocking find it hard to believe they have been married for 65 years.

It is likely tenders will be called in mid-January for the new Waitaki Valley School, with construction to start in March.

Living History NZ producer Scott Elliffe is heading to Adelaide next week to make a presentation at the Interpretation Australia conference.

Oamaru Intermediate School deputy principal Deidre Senior is off to Malaysia next year as one of four New Zealand teachers selected to attend the Microsoft Asia Pacific Partners in Learning Innovative Teacher Conference.

Percy the penguin is one high-flying bird.

A visit to the graves of their respective great-uncles at the Cassino War Cemetery in Italy was particularly poignant for Oamaru couple Tony and Jane Campbell - the graves, in a remarkable coincidence, lie side by side.

"There's a lot of fuss over these new potatoes," Totara grower Marty Quennell said with a smile, as he viewed the first of the season's crop yesterday.

Traditional woodworker Bill Blair has supplied twig brooms for the sci-fi martial arts film Power Rangers, a pole-lathe, shaving horse and grain shovel for The Lord of the Rings, and a half-size trug for Mr and Mrs Beaver and other tools for the Narnia series.