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The LGBTQ community in Niceville is hoping to keep the momentum going after the success of last month’s annual Pride event, which featured an increase in attendance and enthusiasm.

Feilding will be missing Maraku, as well as loosie TK Howden who is with the New Zealand under-20s, and prop Tietie Tuimauga, who is in the Samoa team to play the Māori All Blacks. Dangerous fullback Drew Wild is back in the side though and even with the three key losses, coach Nathan Williams was confident he had enough depth in the rest of the team. He said it had taken them years to build the experienced core of players who had helped them win the last two championships. “We’re expe...

College Old Boys were mortified to see cool Feilding goalkicker Drew Wild steal the game from them in the final second of play.

Te Kawau appear to have a Hankins Shield semifinal in their gunsights after comfortably beating Kia Toa.

COB, through their offloading, piled on five more tries to be 36-0 up and a cricket score beckoned in the second spell. One try was a beauty from a restart when Andre Taylor ran from his own line, Johnny Galloway crosskicked and Andrew McDougall scored 100 metres upfield. Instead, Freyberg won the second half 19-5 after they reconfigured their backline and rumbled on the oldest club player in Manawatū, 42-year-old lock Karl Stewart. COB began conceding penalties and injuries hit badly incl...

Johnny Galloway passes from the scrum. He had a strong game on his return from injury. They foraged voraciously at breakdowns in the second half even when Varsity commanded most of the ball and ground away with their hefty scrum. Varsitys backline had only wing Korie Winters lively on attack and their defence, badly missing injured midfielder Hamish Northcott, was breached too easily by Turbos Stewart Cruden, James Tofa and Andre Taylor to set up two early tries. COBs only failing was averag...

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s design review committee approved exterior plans for three projects: the Penguin City Brewing Co., Stambaugh Auditorium and Ohio Urban Renaissance. Penguin City bought a former Republic Steel warehouse at 460 E. Federal St. for $575,000 in December and is planning a $3.7 million renovation. The 32,704-square-foot location should open in September or October, Annissa Neider, the project’s architect, told the committee at a Tuesday meeting. The exterior work includes...

YOUNGSTOWN – A firm hired by the city envisions a $34.5 million overhaul of 20 Federal Place with apartments mixed with office space on four floors and a bowling alley, bar and malt shop in the basement. But it wouldn’t be the city, which has owned the downtown building for more than 16 years, making the improvements. Instead, Steadfast City, the St. Louis firm hired to create the vision, would search for developers interested in the building starting April 1 and with one expected to be se...

YOUNGSTOWN — City council will consider legislation Wednesday to retain its planning consultant for another year at a rate of up to $75,000. Based on discussion at Monday’s council finance committee meeting, the contract is expected to be approved Wednesday. The professional services contract is with Hunter Morrison, who has served as the city’s planning consultant since August 2019. The contract calls for Morrison to be paid $75 per hour, up to $75,000 for the year, retroactive to Jan. 1...

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s Design Review Committee approved new signs for three downtown businesses: the OH WOW! children’s science and technology center, a restaurant at the Wick Tower and a boutique. The committee voted Tuesday in favor of all three while postponing a vote until next month for a request from Valley Foods System at 335 E. Boardman St. for a chain link fence around a portion of its parking lot. The city’s planning consultant said a barbed-wire fence downtown would make the...