Margi Keys, an ESOL teacher and a proofreader, moved to Whanganui from the North Shore in June 2015. She was planning a six-day rafting

Silly season About Chris Cresswell's article in Saturday's (December 17) Chronicle, "Take the 'silly' out of silly season": Amen

AT SOME stage next year, Horizons Regional Council will be undertaking a public review of flood protection in Whanganui. If you live

DEAR Uncle Bill ... Congrats on becoming New Zealand's 39th prime minister. It may only be a brief tenure, though, so here's an

IS BEING referred to police Youth Aid a slap with a wet bus ticket? Not necessarily. This week's story of seven youths aged 11-16

LAST week I highlighted 10 businesses which, in my view, stood out as excellent in 2016. I had a lot of feedback with a number of

NO TWO WEEKS are ever the same in politics, and the last couple of weeks have certainly proved the point. The unexpected resignation

ONE of the purposes of the media is to find words, music and voice -- figuratively -- to rectify the condition of that ubiquitous

Unfortunately, the paralysis of action can be fostered and manipulated to serve the interests of others.IN THE wake of the United

Modern shaman Hill-country farming was at a crisis point in 1988. I was in the Mangamahu War Memorial Hall watching punk rockers

Gallery costs I also got a fright Mr Moles (Chronicle letters; December 9) when I read that Whanganui District Council "has agreed

Flood protection Jim Ennis (letters, Dec 6), thank you for raising your concerns about possible repair work to the riverbank near

By Graham Pearson LET'S skip Christmas and all its commercialisation and the need to purchase new "things". Instead let's consider

I CAN'T help feeling that what started as a beautiful religious celebration has turned into a nightmare for many people as well as

MONDAY It's always been my dream to be the interim Prime Minister. And now here I am. It feels ... unreal. It feels ... not quite

WITH my Christmas menu locked and loaded, it was time to tackle the masses in the supermarket aisles. Shopping list and unfortunately

THE Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Advocacy, Workforce, and Age Settings) Amendment Act 2016 includes provisions to

Turkeys don't vote for Christmas apparently, and I suspect that Maui's dolphins don't vote for set-net fishing. There's always a

THIS year has seen some amazing leadership in healthy change across the Whanganui Rangitīkei Ruapehu District with examples from

LAST weekend Joseph Parker triumphantly hoisted the WBO heavyweight belt above his head - the new World Champion, he said. The only

I'm having a T-Shirt printed with this logo: "Snow White has left the building and we're left with these little dwarves." In the

Good on them. Good on the families of those poor buggers killed in the Pike River mine disaster. They've been fighting since 2011

DURING the election campaign I took some flak for wearing my shiny business shoes down at the River Traders market, when some other

I AM in the process of moving sheds. I was sorting through my stuff, deciding what to dump and what to keep, when I came across

It had the lustre of Olympic gold; it had the TV cameras; it had the action on the big screen ... It had a sizeable crowd on the

Gender tirade The weekend edition of the Chronicle is usually an informative, entertaining read. Last weekend it left a bitter taste

I GOT the ol' royal wave going last Saturday, taking part in the annual Santa parade down Victoria Ave. Before we even turned the

IT'S a sickly cliche advertisement for Air New Zealand. But oh, how well it works. Go watch the viral video doing the rounds on

SATIRE is meant to have some bite but it seems to have become completely truthless and unable to leave a mark on the hard hide of

Gallery shortfall "The district council has agreed to underwrite any cost over-runs or shortfall in funding ..." Such a simple statement