The next issue of our local magazine Home Range is due out next week. Launched last year, three issues have been delivered free to about 3000 rural letterboxes in the Gordonton, Puketaha, Orini and Horsham Downs areas, and dropped off in cafes and businesses. This Summer issue is packed with local profiles, articles, country
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All hands are needed for a community planting day at Taupiri Mountain this Sunday (July 2.) Taupiri Youth group leader Sharnay Cocup wants to see as many people as possible take part. She has been leading volunteers up the mountain for at least four years since forming the Taupiri Youth Group Charitable Trust, when
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A few weeks back Number 8 Network climbed Taupiri Mountain but sadly cloud obscured any views. Gordonton’s local historian Alan Sharp captured some good images from Taupiri Mountain back in 2007 and sent some in: “For me what was extremely interesting, was comparing the views I was seeing with those of Alfred Sharpe 131
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