Community News
Community News Archive
Piopio Birdtalk Magazine
4th of June 2019See the Piopio "Birdtalk' Magazine in colour? You can download the pdf to the right of our ...
Local School Newsletters
22nd of May 2019See our right column of the Community News page for a pdf of the Piopio College, Piopio Primary and ...
Rural Ward Councillor - Gavin Todd
24th of August 2023THANKS to all those who returned the Council Questionnaire Survey. It was good to see people ...
KC Rivercare: Come Join the Team
24th of August 2023THE COMMITTEE have been busy with arranging the presentation of our latest water results, as well ...
Piopio Lions Club Update
24th of August 2023Our club has recently lost a very valued member with the passing of Dan Weinberg. He was to have ...
Aria Squash Club in fine form
25th of August 2023TERM 2 has been action packed for our Juniors at Aria Squash Club. Coaching and game time has seen ...
Manawatia a Matariki with Kaumatua
25th of August 2023IN LATE JUNE Piopio College celebrated our kaumātua by inviting them to spend the day learning ...
Piopio Fruit & Vege Stand
24th of August 2023Winter is always a challenging season to have enough surplus to share for the community stand. ...
Award-winning fire fighters
24th of August 2023PIOPIO Memorial Hall was chocka as guests attended the Piopio Volunteer Fire Brigade Honours Night ...
Black belt achievements
24th of August 2023Kim Hancy (nee Rauputu) has recently received her black belt in jiu jitsu. The daughter of Tuke ...
Fun, Fun, Fun at the Science Fair
25th of August 2023A YOUNG science learner has found a way to have their skittles and eat them too. The colourful ...
Badminton Success for Piopio College
25th of August 2023PIOPIO COLLEGE dominated the recent King Country Badminton competition with not only numbers but ...
Special Perendale life memberships awarded
24th of August 2023IN MAY of this year during the NZ Perendale AGM & Ward tour through the King Country and Taranaki, ...
Top ranked squash player visits Aria plus more Squash News
13th of June 2023SQUASH at Aria had a slow start early on, with members not being able to field any teams for the ...
Piopio College students ride to success
13th of June 2023TWO Piopio College students have ended the equestrian season with many successes. Grace Purdie ...
Great ANZAC commemorations and other - Gavin Todd (Councillor)
13th of June 2023ON BEHALF of Council I would like to acknowledge the assistance of organisations that helped to ...
ANZAC Commemoration 2023
19th of May 2023What a great turnout for our ANZAC commemoration this year. The support from the public is greatly ...
Primary Schools Interschool cross country
13th of June 2023On Friday, May 12 Mrs Carter took a group of Year 7/8 students through to Rangitoto to compete in ...
Final school bell rings for Mrs Sheeran
13th of June 2023PIOPIO COLLEGE teacher and deputy Principal, Louise Sheeran, has resigned after 14 years, to rest ...
Olympian Visit to Piopio College
13th of June 2023Last week we were very fortunate to have Sarah Cowley-Ross speak to us about her journey and ...
Piopio Swimming Club news
13th of June 2023ANOTHER successful season from Piopio Swimming Club. With 23 clubswimmers and 54 learn-to-swim kids ...
Aria School pretty in pink
13th of June 2023A great splash of pink arrived at school on Friday, May 19 for Pink Shirt Day. One hundred ...
Piopio Playcentre News
13th of June 2023PIOPIO PLAYCENTRE kids have been having some great fun over the last few months. We have had a ...
Amazing Xmas parade
12th of May 2023WHAT an awesome turnout for the Piopio Christmas Parade 2022! A big thank you to everyone who ...
Mokau Fishing Club news
12th of May 2023I hope you have all had a great Xmas and new year, ate, drank, and fished too much. We’ve just ...
Piopio & District Museum Trust update
12th of May 2023THE PIOPIO and District Museum Trust Committee started 2023 off with a working bee. All areas ...
Piopio College & Community Library - Here For All
4th of June 2019Piopio Community Library is on the College grounds. It’s open Tuesday to Friday from 10am-2pm, ...
Growing Future Farmers
13th of December 2022Growing Future Farmers is a two year farm worker training programme for students wanting to enter ...
Piopio Lions Celebrate 50 Years
23rd of November 2022PIOPIO LIONS Club recently celebrated its 50th Reunion with a finger-food lunch and get-together ...
Birdtalk Magazine welcomes new team member
11th of June 2022Introducing Jules Hi everyone! It’s Jules Taitoko here . . . you may know me from such ...
Fat Owl spreads its wings
11th of June 2022WHAT’S in a name? Who-whoooo knows? (‘scuse the owl-related pun). Previously known as the ...
Piopio's Vintage School Bus Reaches Parliament
8th of November 2016'Arapae', Piopio's replica vintage school bus has made a visit to Wellington where it was driven ...
Piopio Retirement (Paearuhe) Village
4th of April 2020Although Paearuhe Village is enjoying almost full occupancy, there is not a large waiting list of ...