When Ann Willetts treads the boards at tomorrow's opening night production of Oklahoma! in Oamaru, she will cement her place in opera house history.
Former Waitaki mayor Alan McLay says he is "rapt" with the refurbishment of the Oamaru Opera House.
Pamela Gordon, niece of author Janet Frame, will speak at a function today to celebrate the opening of new display cabinets housing the Janet Frame and heritage collections at the Oamaru Public Library.
Oamaru mansion Pen-y-bryn Lodge is on the market.
Harry and Edna Hocking find it hard to believe they have been married for 65 years.
Supporters and hecklers, dressed in Victorian garb, are invited to take part in a suffrage march through Oamaru next month.
Oamaru Intermediate School deputy principal Deidre Senior is off to Malaysia next year as one of four New Zealand teachers selected to attend the Microsoft Asia Pacific Partners in Learning Innovative Teacher Conference.
Living History NZ producer Scott Elliffe is heading to Adelaide next week to make a presentation at the Interpretation Australia conference.
It is likely tenders will be called in mid-January for the new Waitaki Valley School, with construction to start in March.
Percy the penguin is one high-flying bird.
KB Irrigation Ltd was yesterday fined $20,000 and ordered to pay $83,000 to the widow and children of a man killed in an irrigation trench on a North Otago farm in 2006.
A visit to the graves of their respective great-uncles at the Cassino War Cemetery in Italy was particularly poignant for Oamaru couple Tony and Jane Campbell - the graves, in a remarkable coincidence, lie side by side.
"There's a lot of fuss over these new potatoes," Totara grower Marty Quennell said with a smile, as he viewed the first of the season's crop yesterday.
The deaths of five blue penguins, near the North Otago Golf Club, appeared to be caused by dogs, Department of Conservation ranger Kevin Pearce says.
Traditional woodworker Bill Blair has supplied twig brooms for the sci-fi martial arts film Power Rangers, a pole-lathe, shaving horse and grain shovel for The Lord of the Rings, and a half-size trug for Mr and Mrs Beaver and other tools for the Narnia series.
It is a long way from Oregon to Oamaru.
Young car enthusiasts will have the opportunity to show off their "pride and joy" at a Mags and Motors event in Oamaru on Saturday.
Waianakarua man Dave Hill says it is "most unusual" being able to hear again.
Fancy a piece of roading history? Blocks of stone from the historic Oamaru stone Waianakarua bridge, completed in 1874, will be sold at St John's Church in Herbert on Sunday between 1pm and 4pm.
National's law and order spokesman Simon Power says he is "terrified" at the prospect of nationalising a restorative justice programme that works in one community.