The Mercury Bay Art Escape Open Artists Studios offers art lovers the opportunity to explore the creative nature of the Coromandel, from Tairua to Opito Bay, to gain a unique perspective, meet the participating artists, admire their studios and understand something of the relationship each artist has with the Peninsula’s beautiful coast. This year the Open Artists Studios will form part of a full “Ten Days of Art” during the first 10 days of March.
We were inundated with entries into our Valentine’s Day competition we published in last week’s Informer. Readers could enter by telling us which Coromandel beach is their favourite to enjoy in the company of their loved one. In a nutshell, we were asking our readers to nominate the Peninsula’s most romantic beach.
Queen’s Birthday weekend this year (Saturday 1 June to Monday 3 June) will see a return of the highly anticipated Whitianga Town Garage Sale.
Coroglen School principal, Jean Saunders, and her staff are looking forward to a busy 2019, including active involvement in the Tuia - Encounters 250 commemorations later in the year.
Zach Wood is one of Mercury Bay’s most recent Wintec graduates, having last year completed an NZQA Level 3 Certificate in Arboriculture in Whitianga.
The top Mercury Bay Area School academic students for 2018 were announced at a whole school assembly on Thursday last week.
After 16 years and nine months of transporting people, bicycles, prams, fresh produce, takeaways and a myriad of other things across the Whitianga River, well-known and much-loved Whitianga ferry driver, Eric Mair (pictured), has retired earlier this week.
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The crimes listed in Occurrences” below highlight that offenders are in our community and will steal anything of value that they can get their hands on.
The Mercury Bay Informer is a highly popular community newspaper, based in Whitianga. The paper is distributed throughout the Coromandel Peninsula, coast to coast from Thames to north of Colville.
