Sarah Marquet

A section of Fruitgrowers Rd in Clyde has been closed as a precaution after a few rocks fell on to the road overnight.

Lake Roxburgh walkway, a popular running, walking and mountain biking track that runs down the true left of the Clutha River, has been closed until further notice as a safety precaution because of blasting work during construction of the Roxburgh Gorge cycle trail on the other side of the river.

Emergency services in Central Otago were kept busy yesterday dealing with four unrelated traffic accidents, which injured five people near Ranfurly, Ettrick and Fruitlands and at Queensberry.

Some people consider it a decorative plant, others a weed, but regardless of its classification, stonecrop has been taking over Central Otago, turning hillsides, roadsides, paddocks and anything else it can grow on a brlliant shade of yellow.

As of midnight tonight, Central Otago will have a prohibited fire season in force, Central Otago principal rural fire officer Owen Burgess said yesterday.

Racing is definitely in the blood for the Anderton family.

Crockery Bob's annual sale was "very successful", Patearoa Bowling Club president John Hore, of Ranfurly, said.

The township of Naseby, which usually boasts a population of little more than 100, swells with holiday-makers at this time of year and the evidence was clear to see in the town's park yesterday afternoon.

Sisters Taylor (12) and Bailey (9) McCaughan, of Alexandra, are polished talent quest competitors, something that might have given them an edge when they performed their gymnastics routine to Lady Gaga's Born This Way at Alexandra's Summer Daze talent quest, held in Pioneer Park yesterday. Pictured at right is Hannah Lindsay, of Milton.