Brooke Black

At a special meeting in early April, the school board voted 4–3 to have superintendent Jazz Parks warn most of the district’s unions of impending layoffs. They did so, president Torchio Feaster says, because they needed “to send a realistic plan to the state” for how to address a $25 million shortfall. If they hadn’t acted, he says, they’d have left the district “open to the possibility of [state] emergency management, and of union contracts being voided, and of programs being cut that we don’t have any say in.”

In the early 1960s, a group of community leaders organized to help underprivileged children get a chance to go to summer camp. Managed through the United Way, they awarded their first “camperships” in 1962.

“[April’s] I Spy is the Jolly Pumpkin Brewery and Cafe at 311 S. Main Street,” writes Silvia Ruiz.

Mackenzie Schuch calls her secondhand boutique, Nuuyuu Collective, "a modern version of consignment."

Bill Knapp’s Bakery Outlet is slated to open in early May in the business park off Airport Blvd. and W. Ellsworth Rd.

Brooke Black Matthew Middlemiss and Christian Romero, of Temuka, enjoy a ride on the Super Trooper during the first night of Illuminate in Timaru's Botanic Gardens on Friday.

Brooke Black A letter writer shares his frustration in trying to submit to Timaru District Council's long term plan online.

At press time, the state’s database showed no March home sales in Pittsfield, Ann Arbor, or Superior townships; Scio Twp. reported sales for only half the month.

Brooke Black Former Timaru mayor Damon Odey, pictured in 2018, was a director of PrimePort Timaru for eight years until he resigned in December 2023. (File photo)

TDHL advertised the role in March after the resignation of Odey, a former Timaru mayor.