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Midlands celebrates 30 years

Birthday celebrations are off the radar during the Covid-19 lockdown, but Midlands Seed still managed to (more)

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Push-up challenge for the Baabaas

  The Ashburton Barbarians’ rugby league outfit are (more)

Life on the other side of the world

According to Fraser Chirnside the stresses of lockdown are the (more)

Rakaia’s top sportspeople vie for title

Organisers of the Rakaia Sports Awards say a downsized version of the (more)

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Push-up challenge for the Baabaas

  The Ashburton Barbarians’ rugby league outfit are using the lockdown period to raise awareness on mental health. As a means (more)

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Rakaia’s top sportspeople vie for title

Organisers of the Rakaia Sports Awards say a downsized version of the event is in the works for later in the year. A total of 28 nominations (more)

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Lockdown ‘just a hiccup’ for Murney Main

  Ashburton’s tallest building has fallen silent, just like every other construction site in Mid Canterbury. But the confidence (more)

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Local millers flat tack

Over the past 30 plus years Mary and Harry Lowe have milled organic flour and grains for regular clients around New Zealand, but since the (more)

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Young Farmer contest cancelled

  This year’s FMG Young Farmer of the Year Aorangi regional final has been cancelled, following the Covid-19 outbreak, along with (more)

Farmers adapt to social distancing

Mid Canterbury farmers have quickly adapted to new social distancing requirements in the wake of the Covid-19 lockdown, while continuing to (more)

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Schools ‘not re-opening anytime soon’

Education Minister Chris Hipkins is warning parents it would be wrong for them to assume that all schools will reopen as soon as the lockdown (more)

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Responding to changing needs

Since its opening, in 1979, the Ashburton Learning Centre (ALC) has worked with hundreds of Mid Cantabrians to improve their literacy and/or (more)

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Head games – I need help

On more than one occasion people have commented to me – “what goes on inside your head?” and I must admit it would be cruel to the (more)

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Letters to the editor, April 11

Vigilantes at work I have read, more than once, the appalling opinion piece by Nick Lindo, published in the Guardian, Tuesday, April 7, titled (more)

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Looking like a ghost town

It probably should have felt like it a lot sooner than yesterday, but for once the Ashburton District actually felt like it was in (more)

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Letters to the Editor, April 9

Letters with Love The things you took for granted. I know there are many, but there are the moments when they come back to you. For (more)

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