Key questions as MAGS grows
In three to four years, when its new farm centre is open, Mt Albert Grammar could be the biggest school in the country, with a roll of probably 3300 to 3400.
David Shearer: life in hell-holes
To most of us, David Shearer is surely a strange animal. Why on earth would a smart worldly-wise bloke choose to leave the family he loves in peaceful suburban Auckland for a risky hell-hole where respect for human life barely registers?
Will we get a new village plaza?
With the village upgrade almost complete, local eyes are starting to turn to the intended town centre plaza and wondering if it will ever happen.
Future goal: a ‘desirable’ Unitec
Housing Minister Phil Twyford’s recent announcement that the Government plans to build between 3,000 and 4,000 new homes on a site in Auckland’s Mt Albert had many people reaching for their calculators. Could it be right, and is it even possible, that a new residential neighbourhood could be built to a density of between 100 and 133 units a hectare?
Woweee! What a wild old night!
Oh, what a night! Surely the wildest we’ve had for years, probably decades. It caused merry hell, dropping trees, shutting off power, ripping away sheds and trampolines, closing roads and schools and leaving a trail of general mayhem but, thankfully, no human harm. Avis Morris joined the rest of the suburb on picture patrol.
