Brighton/Ocean View Playcentre spokeswoman Leanne Stenhouse says the Otago Playcentre Association has decided the playcentre in John St, Ocean View, will begin a ''two-year recess'' from Friday.
The three dead plane trees in the Octagon will be cut to ground level as soon as practicable, the Dunedin City Council community and environment committee decided at its meeting in Municipal Chambers yesterday.
Thomas Jackson-Birtles (5), of Mosgiel, sits in a restored 1928 Ford Model A pedal car at the Otago Community Hospice Charity Cruise at Tahuna Park yesterday.
All that Dunedin City Council junkets to international sister cities created was reports with ''vegetarian'' platitudes and no meat on economic benefits, says Cr Lee Vandervis.
The oldest youth organisation in New Zealand was celebrated in Dunedin on Saturday.
An organisation has opened ''nappy banks'' across New Zealand, giving more people access to cloth nappies.
Artworks created by St Leonard's School pupils are set to take to the street in the annual West Harbour Arts Week parade.
A couple of Dunedin Italian eateries have found new premises to expand their businesses. Shawn McAvinue talks to the owner of a pizzeria moving from the city to the suburbs for a bigger slice of the action and another who moved from the suburbs to the city.
The Middlemarch Promotions Group discussed ways to improve the appearance of Middlemarch at the Strath Taieri Community Board meeting on Thursday, chairman Barry Williams said.
The fate of a picnic table moved a step closer to being decided at the Mosgiel-Taieri Community Board meeting at Mosgiel Service Centre this week, chairman Bill Feather said.
The Dunedin Musicians' Club will celebrate its 40th birthday on the last Saturday of this month.
A Waikouaiti man is seeing red after Google terminated his Android developer account and stopped a steady revenue stream.
The Otago SPCA is investigating the alleged beating of an elderly dog in Dunedin, inspector team leader Julie Richardson said.
A sketch of the mural Reaching for the Stars proposed for Caversham.
A Dunedin widow whose husband's bowel cancer was detected too late to cure wants the Government to commit to a national screening programme.
KC Racing crew members Michael Partel (left) and Jeff Sharp fix a release bearing on a Ford Escort gearbox at the Mitre 10 Mega Dunedin car park last night.
Two Dunedin ceramicists won $1500 prizes at a national ceramic awards announced in Auckland last week.
Three Southerners researching ''society's most pressing problems'' were named as Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship recipients this week.
The bare buttocks of a man being flashed from a moving car was reported to police at 6.23pm last night, Southern District Command Centre deployment co-ordinator Senior Sergeant Brian Benn said.
The replanting of an area of burnt vegetation at Kaikorai Estuary will begin in winter next year, Saddle Hill Community Board chairman Scott Weatherall says.
