A research team from Auburn University is working to identify those who marched alongside John Lewis across Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for voting rights in 1965.
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Rachel and Phil Metcalf operate a feijoa orchard, right, set to be 80 metres from the Ōtaki to north of Levin highway. The owners of Annandale Manor, a bed and breakfast and feijoa orchard on Arapaepae Rd, have learned the 103-year-old house is now 80 metres from the new highway. Half the orchard was originally to be taken for the highway, but the corridor had been refined and the property spared. There is relief, but also a lot of frustration. Rachel Metcalf and her husband Phil have owned the property for almost five years and spent more than $200,000 on consents, plans and initial work on a wedding venue that has gone to waste.