by Bill Hickman | Oct 21, 2020 | Bills Work
16/05/20 Workers have the help of a helicopter to distribute gravel over trails in the Makara Mountain Bike Park as work resumes after the shift down in Covid-19 alert levels. Favourable weather conditions had allowed good progress to be made on Wednesday 13 as up to...
by Bill Hickman | Oct 21, 2020 | Bills Work
28/8/2020 Researchers in geophysics from Victoria University have returned to surveying Wellington central after COVID forced a pause on their data collection. Master’s student Alistair Stronach has been mapping the rock base and sediment beneath the city to better...
by Bill Hickman | Oct 21, 2020 | Bills Work
9/8/2020 T-bone packed the room with four generations of acoustic music fans on Sunday night. The bar was kept busy and the conversation flowed as the five-piece group began their set with little ceremony or delay. Without percussion the band still made for a crowded...
by Bill Hickman | Oct 21, 2020 | Bills Work
6/8/2020Facebook page Wellington Stolen Bicycles receives more reports of bike theft in the capital than the police. Its administrators promote the value of communication about theft and suspicious activity but police warn against the page’s potential for profiling...
by Bill Hickman | Oct 5, 2020 | Bills Work
24/8/2020 Jhan Lindsay’s handmade facemasks are selling like hotcakes from a Petone cake store. Petone resident, Jhan Lindsay began using some leftover materials to make a mask for her partner to wear in his construction job. One week and over a hundred masks later,...
by Bill Hickman | Oct 5, 2020 | Bills Work
8/9/2020 Darren Watson releases ‘Getting sober for the end of the world’. Folk-Blues musician Darren Watson is releasing his new album ‘Getting sober for the end of the world’ on Thursday, October 1 in Wellington’s San Fran. The album features the song Ernie Abbott...