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By Erin Bishop Saturday, June 5, 2010
New Zealand's team for a trans-Tasman swimming event being held next month will have a real Ashburton flavour both in and out of the pool.
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By Jonathan Leask Saturday June 5, 2010
Forget a dynamic duo, triple threat or fantastic four. The Mid Canterbury senior men's hockey team has a six pack.
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By Lance Isbister June 4 2010
There are plenty of hooves taking to Mid Canterbury roads and tracks as dairy farmers dry-off for the season and put cows on winter grazing.
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By Lance Isbister June 4 2010
Hinds School students kept their composure to win a spelling quiz in a nerve-racking sudden-death spell-off against Geraldine in Timaru on Wednesday night.
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By Jonathan Leask June 4 2010
The Ashburton College girls' rugby team took an extraordinary step this season of preparing its own haka.
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By Susan Sandys June 4 2010
Mid Canterbury primary schools have lost out in this year's Gypsy Day lottery, losing students rather than gaining them.
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By Susan Sandys June 4 2010
Mid Canterbury's two secondary school principals are on opposite sides of the debate over universities tightening their entry criteria.
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June 4 2010
It's a wacky idea that has proven to be a winner in Christchurch and now it's Ashburton's turn to change trash into cash for a good cause.
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By Sue Newman
It's an organisation that generally flies below the radar, but it's an organisation that makes a huge difference to the people whose lives it touches.
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By Jonathan Leask June 4 2010
First blood in the Mid Canterbury senior rugby Watters Cup went to Celtic last night, with a 26-6 victory over Rakaia.
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By Jonathan Leask June 4 2010
Ashburton College came out on top of its winter sports exchange with Rangiora by the slimmest of margins yesterday.
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By Susan Sandys June 3 2010
Almost 70 Mid Canterbury teenage Facebook users have been drawn into the world of a possible cyberstalker.
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June 3 2010
Four Year 10 Ashburton College students who admitted smoking cannabis before school will face a disciplinary hearing at the school tonight.
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By Sue Newman June 3 2010
Ashburton's proposed district plan is just that, a proposal, Ashburton District Council environmental services manager John McKenzie told a meeting of about 100 landowners in Ashburton last night.
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By Susan Sandys June 3 2010
Carew Peel Forest School is likely to be the first in Mid Canterbury to be accessing the internet via fibre optic cable.
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By Sue Newman
Facebook, it's the social networking site that anyone who is anyone joins.
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By Erin Bishop June 3 2010
Ashburton College's unbeaten record in the Canterbury rural secondary schools' girls' rugby competition came to an end yesterday.
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June 3 2010
It might have been heavy going for the spectators, but the Ashburton Raceway track was still in good nick after a week of rain and didn't slow the runners in yesterday's Chertsey Trotting Club's trials.
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June 2 2010
An Ashburton woman allegedly paid $15,000 less in rent than she should have after failing to declare who lived with her, appeared in the Ashburton District Court yesterday.
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By Susan Sandys June 2 2010
Methven Trotting Club members are breathing a sigh of relief this week as their multimillion dollar subdivision prepares to come on stream.
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