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A new courthouse, an explosive labor dispute and more were reported on this day in Johnson City history.

Opposition to a Johnson City clerk and master's office, a garden club meeting,a boy's heroism and more were reported on this day in Johnson City history.

Keilani Lopez and Adele White spent this Giving Tuesday organizing food at Middletown's Creekview Elementary School. Keilani and Adele are fourth graders who are helping to make a difference in their community.

“It’s been going on for decades. There was a public meeting about it nine years ago and nothing was done since,” said Wright. “The locals are just tired of no action taking place. They’re over the harrowing sounds of exhaust pipes.” Wright has lived in Cockle Bay for two years, and said accidents had ranged from cars hitting parked cars, spinning out into fences to the recent crash. He approached Luxon to call the meeting. “I would hear it from locals I talked to down at the beach, walking their dogs – you’d just hear it all the time.”

The Clendon community centre runs some really good programmes and initiatives, but it's on a very basic level.“ One of the main reasons why her area lacks the facilities she sees in other parts of Auckland is the way local boards are funded. Each of Auckland’s 21 local boards receive a pot of money for ‘locally driven initiatives’ – which can be for anything the board choses – as well as a much larger ‘asset-based services’ (ABS) operational fund. This fund is based on how many community facilities and local parks are in the area and the money is to cover the costs of r...