Teviot Valley residents know how to mark an occasion - celebrations marking 150 years of settlement in the district have spanned four years, drawing to a close yesterday with a book launch and sculpture gifting.
The inaugural Maniototo Community Cup was hotly contested on Saturday at Ranfurly, where the Gimmerburn team was the winner.
Millers Flat School remains the focal point of the community, 125 years after it opened, say those attending the school anniversary celebrations, held over the weekend.
Opposition to plans to renovate the historic St Bathans Post Office and use it for commercial accommodation is gathering steam.
The Clyde Boating Club has welcomed what it calls a "massive improvement" to Alexandra's only boat ramp, and says the work has lowered the risk of accidents at the site.
A stolen van found submerged in the Clutha River near the Alexandra boat ramp sparked a police investigation yesterday morning, and a diver was called in to check if there were any bodies in the vehicle.
The Otago Polytechnic is increasing tuition fees for 2012 by 4 % - the maximum allowed - for the second year in a row, while the students' association has warned this will lead to a drop in enrolments.
Land Information minister Maurice Williamson's rejection of the name Te Kohua for Central Otago's highest unnamed peak has been hailed as a victory by district Mayor Tony Lepper.
Exactly four years after the first meeting about the project, fundraising has hit the target for the $2.6 million Alexandra Community House, with construction to begin soon.
A new trades academy being set up in Cromwell could be expanded to cater for pupils from all six Central Otago and Queenstown-Lakes secondary schools.
Registrations are flooding in from teams who want to take part in the second Central Otago Relay for Life.
Ideas for the future of the Clyde Pool site will be aired at a public meeting next week.
One of Central Otago's most colourful characters, Bill Cowie, also known as Willie Wong, was found dead at his Tarras home yesterday.
A retrospective application for consent to run a free-range hen farm near Ettrick has ruffled a few feathers.
The tiny hilltop Ida Valley-Moa Creek cemetery is again open for interments, almost 66 years after the most recent burial.
A chimney fire in the 132-year-old Alexandra Courthouse building halted business briefly yesterday about lunchtime.
Central Otago's second Relay for Life, being held in Cromwell on March 17 and 18 next year, has a hard act to follow.
When you consider 60% of South African sheep are blade-shorn, it comes as no surprise that the country's shearers are world leaders in the sport.
A historic Tri-Nations test will be fought in a makeshift shearing shed this weekend.
The blossom was in full bloom on the fruit trees yesterday as the family fun started in the 55th annual Alexandra Blossom Festival.
