Younger people in the Mt Albert electorate were well off the top of the class in enrolling for the 2017 election – but most of those who did so took the next step and voted. While only two-thirds of potential electorate voters aged from 18 to 29 actually enrolled, around 80 per cent of them…
Amos Muzondiwa is the reggae-loving presbyter for Mt Albert Methodist Church – arriving in New Zealand from his native Zimbabwe in 2008 and working at Inglewood United Church in Taranaki before reaching Mt Albert in 2015.
After bubbling away in the background for well over a year, the signs are there may soon be some action on the Housing New Zealand land at 33 Asquith Ave. All the rumours that have swirled over the last many months seem to have been just that and, no, the land has not been sold…
The Alberton Market Day has quickly become one of the highlights on the Mt Albert event calendar – and a start to round two is just 10 days away.
Plans by Auckland Transport engineers to tackle the dangers of the Asquith Ave/New North Rd intersection are starting to take shape – and locals will have a say in the final outcome. The issue has flared over the last week after a Mt Albert Inc story referred to the intersection as “prang alley”, provoking a…
The brains behind the St Luke’s mall expansion picked up plenty of advice from locals concerned about traffic woes, pedestrian safety and the whole future concept of shopping malls. A lively debate on the Mt Albert Community Facebook page came after a Mt Albert Inc story on the expansion plan – and, among the many…
When Denzel Robertson started Mt Albert Grammar School he was “a short, skinny, brown kid who had the same Sonny Bill haircut as every other Polynesian boy”.
The plan to virtually double the size of St Lukes mall is grinding towards a start, though it may be 2019 before work finally begins. Mall company executives are still refining and adjusting the St Lukes masterplan and have been meeting with Auckland Council planners. But any announcement on the final form and a start…
The romantics have their way: Alberton’s grand old redwood tree may indeed have been planted by Allan Kerr Taylor. Well, maybe. When the diseased trunk was lowered by chainsaws on Friday, arborists stepped in with some detective work to estimate how long it had graced Mt Albert. While Kerr Taylor’s fingerprints were not on the…
The old phrase of being “Jack (or Jill) of all trades and master of none” doesn’t quite apply to Maddy Gordon, who has been named Victrix Ludorum (girls’ sporting champion) at Mt Albert Grammar School for 2017.
One of Mt Albert’s most distinguished homes has sold under the hammer, bringing claps of joy from the woman who has lived there for the last 70 years. The Basil Hooper-designed home at 40 Kitenui Ave, known for decades as “the house on the corner”, sold at auction last night for $1.82m (against a 2014…
Mt Albert’s prime prang alley – the intersection of Asquith Ave and New North Rd – appears in line for a safety face-lift. The intersection, which featured on Mt Albert Inc this week and drew dozens of Facebook comments, is being investigated by Auckland Transport and changes seem almost certain. Richard Peck, from Kelly Workshop,…