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Newly seated 14th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Johnnie Copeland administered the oath of office to 10 members of the Baxter County Quorum Court Tuesday evening to kick off the evening’s proceedings. New members Dennis Frank, District 1, and Roger Steele, District 8, joined eight returning members of the quorum court for the first meeting of the new year. Baxter County Judge Mickey Pendergrass told the justices that new District 2 member Angela DeGroote sent her regrets, as she was practicing COVID-19 protocols after having been exposed to an individual with the coronavirus. The court then b...

Wellington.Scoop Two Wellingtonians have become Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit in today’s New Year Honours List: Sue Chetwin, for services to consumer rights. Having begun her career in journalism, Ms Chetwin was editor of the Sunday News from 1994 to 1998, the Sunday Star-Times from 1998 to 2003, and founding editor of the Herald on Sunday from 2003 to 2005. As Chief Executive of Consumer New Zealand from 2007 to 2020 she successfully campaigned for many important consumer law reforms, including prohibitions on unfair contract terms, fairness in consumer credit contracts, c...

New Year 2021 Honours: Constellation of Kiwi stars shine bright 30 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 9 minutes to read Arise, Sir Dave Dobbyn (left). The artist has been honoured for services to music over decades. Dame Anne Salmond (right) has been made a member of the Order of New Zealand. Photo / Files Many of the people lauded in this year's New Year honours will come as no surprise - they are already household names. One of those is musician Dave Dobbyn, whose classic tunes are well known to many and will more than likely be on the playlist at many New Year gatherings tonight. Dobbyn is one of four peo...

To receive the Queen’s Service Medal Peter Goodbehere was a founding member of the Napier branch of the New Zealand Federation of Film Societies in 1959, and president for 42 years, from 1960 to 2002. Century Cinema co-ordinator Peter Goodbehere with the film “Under The Southern Cross” in Napier in 1999. (File photo) His expert skills and dedication to restoration saved many damaged films. He established Century Cinema in Napier in 1990, the first art-house cinema in Hawke’s Bay. As manager and projectionist until his retirement in 2010, he watched it grow from two screenings a wee...

Ave Maria Grotto alive with the lights of Christmas Ave Maria Grotto alive with the lights of Christmas (Source: WBRC) By Fred Hunter | December 23, 2020 at 6:32 PM CST - Updated December 23 at 6:32 PM CULLMAN, Ala. (WBRC) - Nearly a hundred years ago, Brother Joseph Zoettl began work on what would come to be known as The Ave Maria Grotto at St. Bernard’s Abbey in Cullman. But for many years, there had never been Christmas lights. Now the entire Grotto is alive with the lights of the holiday season. “We thought, this has never been lit at night in the 85-year history of The Grotto...