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  • 1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Jules Chin

    You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsNorth OtagoVanessa Hendry and Tim Lockerbie have finally booked their "one-way ticket" to Australia after selling their beloved Vanessa’s Cottage Cafe. The couple have owned and run the popular Hampden eatery, on State Highway 1, for over a decade. The business had been on the market for over two years, before the sale went through last month.

  • 1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Jules Chin

    You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsNorth OtagoOamaru cheesemaker Jonathan Emerson is a finalist for the prestigious Champion Cheesemaker title to be announced in Hamilton on May 1. He is head cheesemaker for Whitestone Cheese which alone has already secured an impressive 18 medals at the 2025 Champions of Cheese Awards.

  • 1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Jules Chin

    You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsNorth OtagoA book to celebrate the 100-year anniversary and "remarkable achievement" of the Rotary Club of Oamaru is set to be launched at the club’s centennial celebrations today.

  • 2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Jules Chin

    You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsNorth Otago"No Place Like Home" is the first formal exhibition at the new Community Art Hub in Palmerston. The exhibition of postcard-sized art opens tomorrow at the hub at 34 Burraness St.The hub opened last November and provides a learning and exhibition space for rural artists.

  • 2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Jules Chin

    You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsNorth OtagoActress, writer, director and cabaret artist Sarah-Louise Young, from An Evening Without Kate Bush, says the show is not about impersonating a great artist. "For me, there is only one Kate Bush," she said. North Otago residents have the chance to see An Evening Without Kate Bush. The "smash-hit cabaret-style homage" is on at the Oamaru Opera House tomorrow night.

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Esther Ashby-Coventry

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Rob Kidd

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Ani Ngawhika

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