Richard Davison

This week’s Silver Fern Farms Local Legend is Catherine Scott, of Milton.

This week’s recipient of the Silver Fern Farms Local Legend is Milton Foodbank co-ordinator June Caldwell, for her work with the foodbank across the Bruce district.

An outgoing South Otago-based Red Cross official says her rural connections have helped inform every aspect of her work.

Young and possibly very old gathered together for a slippery encounter in West Otago last week.

This week’s Silver Fern Farms Local Legend leg of lamb winner Rodger Anderson, of Taieri Mouth, at Livingstonia Park, Taieri Mouth, where he voluntarily helps maintain the grounds.

Lawrence’s annual celebration of its historic past begins tomorrow night, culminating in Lawrence Heritage Day centred at the Tuapeka Vintage Club on Sunday.

Families throughout the South will be severely compromised by proposed cuts to the new Dunedin hospital, a South Otago mother says.

West Otago officials hope to kill two birds with one stone with a proposal for a new civic-safety project.