When Oamaru accountant Tony Brady walks out of his office for the final time, he admits it will be a strange feeling.
Winifred Gaze, who celebrated her 75th wedding anniversary in July last year, has died in Oamaru.
Watch out for the Waitaki Wasps.
When land baron Robert Campbell married in 1868, he decided the attractive two-storey homestead on Otekaieke Station was not big enough to live in.
French tarts are a big seller at Ian and Pam Currall's stall at the Kurow farmers market.
Vaughan Tessier-Varlet admits he is a workaholic.
Armed with a stick bearing the heads of 15 decapitated Barbie dolls, Honey Wilson was ready to do battle at the Oamaru Public Gardens on Thursday.
One of Oamaru's most prominent buildings is being restored to its former glory.
Steve Hotton's merino meat pies are selling like . . . well, hot pies.
Windy and, at times, wet weather failed to deter a large crowd attending the Kurow Jockey Club's annual race meeting yesterday.
The country meeting, scheduled on its traditional date of December 30 instead of early January, is always a popular event on the calendar of holidaymakers staying in the Waitaki Valley.
Police have increased their presence in the Waitaki Valley this holiday period, following problems with drunken teenagers in Otematata at Labour Weekend. Sally Rae goes on the beat on New Year's Eve and in the early hours of 2010.
John McLellan is not one for a fuss. Ask him what he thinks of receiving the Queen's Service Medal for services to marine search and rescue, and the 82-year-old Moeraki identity responds, "I thought that sort of thing was wiped long ago."
Waianakarua cowboy Graeme Purvis was pretty in pink at the Omarama rodeo yesterday.
Red Cat, the newest arrival at the Omarama airfield, is causing quite a stir.
A temporary liquor ban in Omarama following the Omarama rodeo "worked very well", police said yesterday.
A former pupil of Teschemakers, now living in England, wants a comprehensive report drawn up by a team of architectural historians to ascertain the whole site's cultural heritage significance for New Zealand.
About 3000 submissions have been received on the controversial dairy farm development in the Omarama-Ohau region, with two or three a minute arriving electronically at Environment Canterbury for much of yesterday.
A rescue operation was launched on the Waitaki River yesterday afternoon after a fisherman saw a jet-boat hull floating down the river.
"That was so awesome," Stephanie White enthused after competing in the second division barrel race at the Waimate rodeo yesterday.
Growing up on Shag Valley Station, Johnny Bell considered himself lucky. Now the fifth-generation farmer knows he is. Sally Rae reports.