Who s the most popular band in the Bay this summer?
It s a close run thing. What with Tauranga now being celebrated as Festival Central for New Zealand – this week sees yet another in the form of One Love s reggae celebration - there have been a whole bunch of different bands playing here in the past month or so.
But taking the prize must be. Credence Clearwater Revival! Well, the tribute show at least.
After playing at Waihi Beach just before Christmas, they were back a couple of weeks ago playing at a Twilight Concert in Katikati s Haiku Domain. Now they re back again, not on the Bayou but in the Bay, this time playing in Tauranga for the Entertainers Club on Valentine s Day (that s Sunday 14 February for you non-romantic types).
CONWAY â The Christmas Eve and Christmas Day storm brought heavy rain and some flooding of local streams and rivers and caused snowpack cover to melt prior to the start of vacation week, but the storm did not drop as much precipitation as forecasted.
âWe got 1.34 inches here at the station but they had predicted more than 2 inches. That combined with there being less snow on the ground made it less impactful than predicted,â said Conway Village Fire Chief Steve Solomon Monday, as a light snow fell.
Local U.S. cooperative weather observer Ed Bergeron reported 1.69 inches on Christmas Eve and another .9 inches on Christmas Day for a total of 2.59 inches at his West Side Road North Conway weather station.
Lawmakers still taking jobs with lobbying firms, despite ethics amendment
Craig Patrick reports
TAMPA, Fla. - In 2018, a state commission in Florida loaded the ballot with amendments. One of those amendments Amendment 12 changed the ethics rules for politicians in state government.
Amendment 12 said elected state officials would have to wait six years after they left office before they could work as a lobbyist at the state or federal level. The idea was to close the revolving door in state politics.
By ‘revolving door,’ we mean when special interests lobby the lawmakers, then on their way out the door, lawmakers take jobs with those same special interests to lobby their former colleagues.
While COVID-19 concerns have cancelled in-person classes and activities in south central Iowa and across the state, the Pella Community School District has largely been able to forge ahead with little-to-no impact on daily routines.
Pella Schools Superintendent Greg Ebeling says staff and administrators have worked with students and families to keep education in person whenever possible for the majority of the district’s population, while at the same time aiming to provide virtual and remote options for families who opted to do so or for those in COVID-19 quarantine.
Pella Middle School Student Council members Sydney Namminga, Isabella Ebersole, Alexander Demuth, and Ben Wilcox all say it’s been important for them to have some sense of normalcy, especially after missing out on school this past spring and many activities and other events since the beginning of the pandemic.