by Cimino | 24 Dec 2018 | Dredging, Local board, Paths and trails, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
Warkworth Town Hall, inescapably, is where the community should assemble to make decisions for itself. Not the Auckland Town Hall, with its region-wide responsibilities for a city of 1.7 million. In a slightly less imperfect world, Mahurangi and districts would have...
by Cimino | 19 Dec 2018 | Warkworth
Its arse-end is one of Warkworth’s worst features, despite robust heritage architecture being about striving to keep public buildings relevant to their communities. Nothing about the blank back wall of the Old Masonic Hall commends it to be considered sacrosanct. In...
by Cimino | 8 Dec 2018 | Fauna, Warkworth, Weirs
Millennia before human habitation, the natural sandstone weir at the Mahurangi River tidehead would have formed a formidable barrier to īnanga in their imperative to migrate from the sea to freshwater reaches. Then, over about the last 6000 years, towards its lower,...
by Cimino | 5 Dec 2018 | Warkworth
Better connecting its tidehead town to its river has been a Mahurangi Action goal since the organisation was formed 44 years and one fortnight ago. Understandably, for a forward-looking town, Warkworth was built with its back to the river that represented the past....
by Cimino | 14 Nov 2018 | Sea-level rise, Warkworth
Permanent ice sheets are a misnomer. Ages involving alternating glacial and interglacial periods are ephemeral, occupying only a small percentage of geological time. Humankind’s greatest—although certainly not in any laudatory sense of the adjective—achievement is to...
by Cimino | 19 Oct 2018 | Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
As befits the stellar success of the last town-hall talk, before finances forced a two-month hiatus, the series is back to stay. August’s Warkworth Town Hall Talk, by Dr Andrew Jeffs, has spawned a five-year, potentially $1 million, research project aimed at slashing...
