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Central decision due Kaipara Mayor Jason Smith assured councillors a plan change was not a building consent, and technical aspects would be reviewed in due course. The Kaipara District Council is set to make a decision on a plan change that would allow 500 additional houses to be built in Mangawhai Central at a meeting in Dargaville next week. The decision was to be made at a meeting in Mangawhai last month but was deferred as councillors said they had been rushed. Councillors were to vote on whether they accepted the recommendation of independent commissioners to allow the private plan chang...

WATERTOWN — After putting off the purchase for a number of years, the City Council on Monday agreed to buy a new fire truck when they unanimously approved a $1.4 million bond for its purchase. Fire department officials have been talking about purchasing a new ladder truck for about five years because of skyrocketing costs to repair the department’s two aerial trucks, but budget constraints have prevented it from happening. The new ladder truck — made by KME with a mid-mounted ladder — will replace an E-One aerial that has been in operation since 1986. The 2004 Pierce ladde...

WATERTOWN — City officials waited a year to apply for federal funds for a planned Thompson Park amphitheater to give the Watertown Family YMCA the opportunity to score its $9 million grant for its community center project in a former call center on Arsenal Street. A year later, city officials are now preparing to go after that Department of Defense funding for a permanent stage in Thompson Park that’s been discussed for years. They are about to seek an architectural firm to put together conceptual drawings of what the amphitheater would look like and how much it would cost, informat...

WATERTOWN — Leonard G. Spaziani will have to wait until the next City Council meeting to know if he will be appointed to fill a vacant council seat. Council members met with him in executive session for about 30 minutes before deciding to table the appointment until the April 19 council meeting. “Mr. Spaziani wasn’t shy on his answers,” Mayor Jeffrey M. Smith said after the closed-door session. “We know where he stands.” Mr. Spaziani said he didn’t pull any punches during the interview. “I told them what I thought,” he said. “The city needs he...

WATERTOWN — The Thompson Park pool, which made its debut last season, will be the only one the city will open this summer. City Council on Monday night informally agreed to staff the new $3.1 million pool at Thompson Park this season after learning the Flynn pool at the North Elementary School would need at least $300,000 in major repairs. City Council members also agreed not to open the Alteri pool this summer so data on pool attendance numbers could be collected to see if it would warrant the city having two pools opened. During budget deliberations last year, council members, by a 4-1...