Scallop Festival Saturday dawned with a brilliantly bright and sunny day, matched by the great moods of the festivalgoers who lined up in the newly updated Taylors Mistake to check in and grab their wine glasses for an afternoon of fun.
Sunday, 23 February 2020
Live music, celebrity chefs and thousands of mouth-watering seafood morsels will combine this weekend for the much-anticipated return of the Whitianga Scallop Festival.
After what many people have perceived as a relatively mild winter, the first two weeks of this month wasn’t the early start to spring anyone in Mercury Bay expected.
The owners of “Westering,” the boat that broke from her mooring in the Whitianga River and ran aground on Buffalo Beach on Wednesday morning, 4 September, would like to extend their gratitude to all who helped with the salvage operation.
Margaret Laird has a very large dog, a Saint Bernard named Bear.
A new activity may soon be on offer in Whitianga as work to bring pickleball to the town’s sporting menu gains momentum.
An extravaganza of student talent along with some wonderful tributes combined at Te Rerenga school on Tuesday last week as the community gathered to farewell retiring principal, Anna Yates.
Mercury Bay Museum has recently acquired two very special items for their new display focusing on the 12 days the explorer James Cook spent in Mercury Bay in 1769.
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Professional garden development and care.
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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.
