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Helping to make our streets safer
By Erin Bishop September 3 2010Ashburton's Neighbourhood Support is in dire need of people to help keep streets and communities safer.
Barbarians ready to do battle
By Erin Bishop September 3 2010The Ashburton Barbarians rugby league team would have been happy just to win a game in its first season.
High speed internet slowing down
By Linda Clarke September 3 2010Electricity Ashburton has been forced to slow expansion of its fibre-optic network in rural Mid Canterbury because Government has changed the criteria for funding ultra-fast broadband.
Lauriston looking to the future
By Amanda Durry September 3 2010Lauriston School has gone from strength to strength in the past 10 years and that success will see the inclusion of a fifth classroom by the end of the year.
Animal antics
By Linda Clarke September 3 2010Feral dogs and cows gone walkabout are creating headaches for the Ashburton District Council.
Rebound for Mid Canterbury
By Jonathan Leask September 3 2010Mid Canterbury will look to bounce back from an opening loss with a road trip to Masterton to take on Wairarapa Bush tomorrow.
College footballers on a winning roll
By Amanda Durry September 1 2010Ashburton College's boys 1st XI is still in the running to win the Ashburton satellite secondary school football tournament after two good wins yesterday.
Slow starts proving costly
By Jonathan Leask August 31 2010Ashburton is hosting the Johnson Cup secondary schoolboys hockey tournament, which was greeted by wet weather for its opening day yesterday.
Last gasp Mid Canterbury effort falls short
By Jonathan Leask August 30 2010The home ground hoodoo continued as Poverty Bay claimed a 25-20 win over Mid Canterbury in a thrilling Heartland Cham-pionship opener played in Ashburton on Saturday.
Mid Canterbury keeping an eye on the history books
By Jonathan Leask August 27 2010Mid Canterbury hosts Poverty Bay tomorrow to open the Heartland Championship.
Farm's new lease of life
By Lance Isbister June 28 2010
hertsey sheep and crop farmer Campbell McArthur is seeing his family's dream come to fruition through the Acton Irrigation Scheme.
Working together for the best price
By Lance Isbister August 10 2010Dairy grazers are keen to work together with dairy farmers to be paid for the quality of their winter feed crop.
Of trees and ETS
By Lance Isbister July 8 2010Foothills landowners have a good opportunity to profit from planting trees on marginal land through the Emissions Trading Scheme.
Stock, prices down at annual fair
By Lance Isbister July 6 2010The annual Ashburton Hogget and In-Lamb Ewe Fair saw fewer numbers of stock this year with lower prices for average ewes compared with last year.
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