Raglan Talking to Raglan

Another week of local news and interviews. At the end of RTR a recording of an interview with Malibu Hamilton, when he was talking about surfbreak protection and housing. Before that an interview from this morning's Morning Show about neighbours and before that another MS interview about Raglan Club. In the news this week some of the census figures, including a rise in Raglan's population from 3,2...

More local news, including a tribute to the work done by Malibu Hamilton, the Palestine event coming up at the Old School from 10 on Sunday morning, the extra buses to Manu Bay and Morning Show interviews with the Karioi Project, one of the many groups formed by Malibu's work and with our councillor, Lisa.

Apologies for the silence when the microphone was off for a few seconds, but it worked in the end, starting with Aaron''s interview with the community board chair, followed by a summary of what's on the community board agenda, including some extra buses, though probably not making the best use of $58,142 a year. Then ending with the rest of the Karioi geology interview there wasn't time for last w...

Another update on local environmental and political news, including hearing a Morning Show interviews with our councillor.

An update on local news, plus a couple of interesting interviews from the Morning Show - Gillian talking about the Palestine film showing at 7pm at the Old School on Wednesday and Oliver talking about the geological history of Karioi and the book he's launching a week on Saturday and the accompanying exhibition in the Old School.

Not much local news this week, but Aaron had an interview about a new amphibious boat in town and I delved back to 2006, when the Chronicle changed from A4 black and white to its current format and all the background to that.

More local news and interviews from the Morning Show with our local councillor and Waikato District mayor.

A quick look at tomorrow's Community Board agenda and other local news, plus hearing from the Board's chair, a bit about penguins and Green co-leader talking about the need for change to protect environment and people.

A bit of local news, followed by Lorna Lusty, who wrote some chapters of the local history books and talked on the radio some 20 years ago, with recollections, such as walking over 2 miles to Te Uku School in the 1920s, afternoon tea at Raglan bakery (now George's), followed by the talking pictures in the Town Hall, but doing washing with a copper. Lorna also recalled the start of top-dressing, th...

A Regional Council talk on renewable energy and a delve back into the history of electricity coming to Whāingaroa in 1935

Not much news this week, but, to find out more about renewable energy, etc, follow the link to the Waikato Regional Energy Inventory, in my Facebook post at https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8179278698791196&set=gm.1631262944101746&idorvanity=325348818026505. How much drier Waikato is becoming! Also Aaron's interviews about council and Xtreme were good.

Weekly news about local politics and environment and Karioi Project and Te Mauri Tau interviews.

Environment and local politics, with events, etc

Another update of local news and environment issues

A summary of the local political and environmental news for this week, together with the weather and what's on.

John has Fred in-studio to talk about running for Regional Council for a third term.

John talks with Pamela about the fresh water plan, climate change, buses, pests and the coastal plan.

John talks about the controversy on the council with Fred along with the fresh water plan, climate change, buses, pests and the coastal plan.

We discuss the "resign or be rolled over alleged racist remarks" headline that might see the Regional Council chair, Russ Rimmington replaced. Fred also talked about many more important issues, such as the Coastal Plan and our opportunity to have a say about marinas, aquaculture, surfing, etc, about Harbour Care's 2 millionth tree and several other topics.

John Lawson gives us the lowdown on Raglan