Shaping Mataura: Mataura Taskforce member Joan Huling (left) and chairwoman Laurel Turnbull look at some of the ideas the group is considering putting into practice this year.
The Mataura Taskforce may only be nine months old, but the community organisation has already taken big steps in an effort to revitalise the town.
The taskforce has several proposed projects it is working on including a BMX track, developing a town motto and forming a cooperative to run the community market days.
What can we do? Mataura Taskforce chairwoman Laurel Turnbull ponders what can be done to address underage drinking in the town and its associated graffiti problem.
Concerns about an underage drinking culture which is causing problems in Mataura are to be discussed at a meeting in the town next week.
The Mataura Community Board has invited representatives from local organisations including police, secondary school guidance counsellors, schools, iwi and The Mataura Youth Trust to the meeting to be held next Wednesday.
The news that fast food chain McDonald's plans to demolish the Kelvin House building to make room for its new Gore restaurant has not found favour with everyone in the town.
Fast food restaurant chain McDonald's is planning to build on the Kelvin House site in Gore.
The Alliance Group Mataura Plant has recorded one of its highest returns of seasonal workers in about 15 years.
Fonterra's internet-based auction could be driving whole-milk powder prices down, Waikaka dairy farmer Russel Falconer says.
Global dairy prices will continue to fall until either the supply of product declines or buyers have confidence the world economic situation will improve, Fonterra commercial director of GlobalTrade Guy Roper says.
Gore may get its own pet cemetery if an idea floated by Gore District councillor Steve Dixon finds favour among his fellow councillors.
The idea to develop a pet cemetery was put forward by Cr Dixon during discussion about the parks and reserves working party summary report at Gore District Council's meeting on Tuesday night.
An almost doubling of the number of women referred by police to Gore Women's Refuge is proof that anti-family violence campaigns are beginning to have an effect, refuge service co-ordinator Catherine Murphy says.
A proposal to establish a community garden on a portion of land at Bannerman Park got the thumbs up from Gore District Council on Tuesday night.
Some Mataura business owners and residents are upset by the portrayal of the town on TV3's Campbell Live on Tuesday night.
Members of the Gore Prison Fellowship group have been named as recipients of a volunteer recognition award for their work at Otago Corrections Facility, near Milton.
The global financial downturn has begun to bite in the south.
When Molly Hobcraft was growing up it was a very different world; it was a world of Model T Fords, radios and leaving school at the age of 13.
The founder of Imagine Chicago, a project which has been credited with inspiring a global movement, is to speak at a community planning day in Mataura.
The already busy electorate office of Bill English is set to get even busier, now the Clutha Southland MP has been named Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.
An investigation into why there is conflict in Mataura, and the role of landowner and retired American dentist Dr Jack Phillips in the town, is to be the subject of a TV3 Campbell Live programme.
Gore's infamous Hokonui moonshine history is to be the subject of an American television show which takes a light-hearted look at indigenous alcohol, Eastern Southland Gallery curator Jim Geddes said.