Reading Time: 2 minutesAbout 3,500 local school children receive delicious and nutritious hot lunches every school day, which helps them focus and have energy to learn and grow. All the children from Royal Oak Intermediate and Te Papapa Schools receive the hot lunches as part of the Ka Ora Ka Ako Ministry of Education-led Healthy Lunches Programme. It ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter months of uncertainty, Auckland Light Rail has recommended the light rail only route to be built alongside the SH20. ALR selected this route due to the overwhelming response and tremendous feedback from almost 2,300 community members in the limited timeframe earlier this year. This route will cause minimum disruptions, is the simpler of the ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesParking congestion outside Onehunga Primary School is a constant concern for the principal as she sees cars stopped on yellow lines and double parked every day, and says students are being put in danger for the sake of a quicker pick up. “Convenience cannot outweigh children’s safety. It’s just too high a risk,” says Viki ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesA young woman from Onehunga is swapping her spring cardigan for layered thermals to take a trip of a lifetime to a glacial wonderland. Rose Lasham (21) is one of 22 young New Zealanders chosen from 550 for the Antarctic Heritage Trust’s ninth Inspiring Explorers Expedition, to explore South Georgia Island in the Antarctic. The ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesGrassroots podcast radio network Onehunga.FM is once again online with a brand new podcast about – yes you guessed it – Auckland Light Rail. Rachel Sturges is the host of the brand new podcast for Onehunga.FM’s radio show, called IMBY, an acronym for ‘In My Backyard,’ a clever play-on-words for local issues in the neighbourhood ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Onehunga Business Association is proposing to expand the town’s business improvement district (BID), as they can see the great potential the town has to offer. According to Amanda Wellgreen, town manager at the business association, there are 450 businesses in the current BID boundary, and they are aiming to include about 650 more, to ...
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnehunga is soon going to be home to over 700 new homes as a development boom has hit the town. Kāinga Ora is building 400 of these homes, Ockham is developing 210 homes in Jordan Avenue, and the Onehunga Mall Club is building an apartment block that will house 102 one and two-bedroom apartments. Resource consent ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesWatercare is carefully monitoring raw water at the closed Onehunga Water Treatment Plant, as low levels of a toxic chemical are still being detected. The local plant in Spring Street was temporarily shut down in October last year after the plant did not meet the new drinking water standards set out by the World Health ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Central Interceptor, a 14.7km sewerage tunnel being dug under Auckland, has passed a significant local milestone. The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) is now close to 7km into its journey, having crossed under the Manukau Harbour and 110 metres below Hillsborough. The boring machine, Hiwa-i-te-Rangi, has already passed beyond the Onehunga area. The interceptor is ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesKing’s Birthday honours recipient Qiane Matata-Sipu recognises the conflicting emotions of receiving an honour from the Crown, an entity which represents the colonial structures she has been working to dismantle throughout her career. However, Qiane is happy to have 20 years of hard mahi (work) recognised, and to have her life’s purpose – to amplify ...