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Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard, All Blacks great Richie McCaw and a 75-year-old honouring his late wife are among the athletes racing from Kumara to New Brighton.
It all begins here, in Grand Rapids, MI in 2008, and, the fictional Herpolburg’s Department Store in 1967. Get it, Herpolsheimer's and Wurzburgs! Two local and popular Grand Rapids department stores downtown a bit ago. The Santa Hat is, I think, going to be a Christmas classic. Produced by Teresa Thome and Patrick Ziegler of Fubble Entertainment here in Grand Rapids, an Emmy® Award winning company with success in national entertainment television, web content development, new media based projects and live theater. The Santa Hat has an all star cast with Ed Asner, Lucie Arnaz, and Tony Aw...
LINCOLN – Originally scheduled to be ready for use this month, the completion of the gymnasium renovation at Lincoln High School has been delayed again. Those close to the project have reported that the recently finished gym floor will need to be almost completely redone, setting the schedule back at least a month. The problem was discovered shortly after the new floor was installed, when Athletic Director Greg O’Connor walked the gym and noticed that the floor was uneven, with gaps between the floorboards. “There were major problems,” said School Committee Chairman Joseph Goho, wh...
Judith Collins and David Seymour grill Jacinda Ardern on housing. OPINION: The last Question Time of the year is often likened to the last day of school – and not unfairly. MPs trade lighthearted barbs and take a swipe at the press gallery before adjourning the House and heading to Parliament’s end-of-year bash (hosted, I might add, by the very same press gallery they had been lashing minutes before). It was in this spirit that Finance Minister Grant Robertson was asked a silly patsy by his colleague Greg O’Connor: “What reports has he received about questions to him about reports he...
That’s the equivalent of the entire annual budget for state highway improvements. The worst offenders were the Wellington Roads of National significance, which went $381m over budget, and a series of Auckland roads that went $352m over budget. The cost overruns were revealed in written Parliamentary questions to Green party transport spokesperson and former associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter. Genter said construction costs were increasing too fast. Ross Giblin Transmission Gully has run hundreds of millions of dollars over budget. “Construction costs have been increasin...