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Julie McMillan uses Waiomu Beach Cafe’s new milk tap. PHOTO: KELLEY TANTAU

Coastal cafe meets rural ingenuity

Post author:Kelley Tantau
Post published:October 24, 2023
Post category:News

A waterfront cafe along the Thames Coast has connected with a dairy farm in rural Waikato, and now its plastic waste has been reduced by the thousands. The Waiomu Beach…

Leanne Grinder and her husband Peter have worked on restoring her Davy St cottage since 2015. PHOTO: KELLEY TANTAU

From grungy cottage to ‘grande dame’

Post author:Kelley Tantau
Post published:October 21, 2023
Post category:News

There’s a motley collection of colours, textures, and eye-catching items; an aesthetic of excess that can’t be seen from the roadside.A step from the quiet footpath of Davy Street in…

There were quite a number of plantations uncovered each year on the peninsula, with some plants well over 2 metres high. They were winched back up and flown back to Thames. File Photo: PIXABAY

COLUMN: Cannabis stolen from Thames Police station

Post author:app
Post published:October 20, 2023
Post category:Features

By RON AGNEW, Community policing as it used to beThere weren’t so many hard drugs around in Thames in the 1970s and 80s. So cannabis was the big deal for Police…

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