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Students making sandbags in Anakiwa. Photo: Supplied / Outward Bound They were part of the large community response to the flooding in the Sounds that cut off isolated settlements last weekend. Tourist and barge operators joined in the rescue and recovery efforts. Ninety teenagers were two weeks into their three-week "mind body soul" course with Outward Bound, based in Anakiwa, when MetService forecast downpours for the top of south last weekend. The students were quick to embrace their haepap...

But for the past 15 years, another passion – also celebrating the Sounds – has consumed his life. Edmonds has been carving out a 42-kilometre pathway through the natural vegetation, starting near his home close to Havelock, and traversing sometimes above, sometimes below the scenic Queen Charlotte Drive all the way to Picton. SCOTT HAMMOND/STUFF For artist Rick Edmonds, the Marlborough Sounds are the centre of the universe, and the inspiration for all that he does. “For the last 50 yea...

Cor Van Raay donation gets LINK pathway construction moving Poll Yes The new LINK Pathway Legacy Project spanning 15 km from Coaldale to Lethbridge will finally begin construction this spring thanks to the generous support of one private citizen. “The LINK Pathway Legacy Project is a three metre wide pathway that connects Coaldale to the City of Lethbridge through the countryside off-highway without traffic interaction,” explains Link Pathway committee chair Henry Doeve. “It is going to ...