Waitati

Police have arrested one person and are seeking another after a burglary at the Blueskin General Store, at Waitati, north of Dunedin.

The rail transport advocate group 'Get the Train' is planning another one-day-only Waitati-Dunedin-Waitati commuter train.

The service will be run during Walk 2 Work Week, on March 10, spokesperson Danielle Cameron told 'Blueskin News'.

"We really want to pack this train out so put it in your diaries now and tell people."

Boat owners will be penalised during the summer holidays if they leave their trailers illegally parked on some parts of the Wanaka lakefront road reserve or allow their boats to block access at the Roys Bay and Frankton marinas.

The formal sale of the beleaguered Oakridge Resort in Wanaka is scheduled to be finalised this afternoon, with South Island hoteliers the Williams Group taking ownership of the property.

"The real reason I do it now is for her," Whitewater NZ conservation spokesman Glenn Murdoch says, nodding down at his 3-month-old daughter Maia.

A new youth facility in Waitati would give young people somewhere to "kick a ball around" and a place to do physical activity in bad weather, say those behind the idea.

Photos by Magda Buchholz of the commuter train journey from Waitati to Dunedin on World Car-free Day, Tuesday, 22 September 2009.

The Blueskin Bay community north of Dunedin is well on the way to owning and managing its own renewable source of power generation.

Ontrack, a subsidiary of Kiwirail, had nearly 60 men working on a two-day maintenance project alongside Blueskin Bay on the weekend of 18-19 September.