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AT&T Pro-Am The heart of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am tourney has been surgically removed and replaced. The new event will be nothing of its old self. Its pulse will drop from a strong pitter-patter to a flat line. This is what the pro golfers wanted, the network wanted. It’s not what the gaggle of […]

Farewell Tunneyside Thank you, Jim Tunney, for your many Tunneyside columns, and thank you to The Herald for making them a mainstay of the newspaper. Jim recently announced that he would be discontinuing the columns, which graced the newspaper’s pages for many years. They will be missed. Jim’s writings, both in The Herald and in […]

Game Time

The Facebook page contains dozens of posts selling merchandise, but the school is urging community members not to fall for it .

Veterinarian Michael Baer has been a familiar face in the Cook Islands for the past couple of years. He chats to deputy editor Al Williams as he prepares for another chapter in his life.

Mark Twain had the dubious pleasure of seeing his own obituary printed in the paper and over the last week I have had a similar feeling. While far from being an obituary, a Facebook post about me leaving has attracted heaps of comments, writes Dr Michael Baer, the outgoing Te Are Manu Vet Clinic medical director.

Less than three weeks until I finish at Te Are Manu (TAM) and as always when something is about to end, my mind drifts to what has happened, what was then, and what is now. And how lucky I have been, writes Dr Michael Baer, the outgoing Te Are Manu Vet Clinic medical director.

November 17 will be Te Are Manu’s final visit to Aitutaki for the year. It will also be my last visit to Aitutaki, for the monthly clinic, and my final day working for Te Are Manu, writes Dr Michael Baer.

Ciguatera poisoning, or as we know it, fish poisoning, occurs all over the world in animals and people. We can’t cure it in animals, all we can do is make them comfortable, writes Dr Michael Baer, Te Are Manu Vet Clinic medical director.

Banjo Patterson, the man who wrote the words printed on the Australian $10 note, described his office job as “the round eternal”. It never ended, it never really started, and it was very difficult to see any progress, writes Dr Michael Baer.