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 ...
Piopio Lions Celebrate 50 Years
23rd of November 2022PIOPIO LIONS Club recently celebrated its 50th Reunion with a finger-food lunch and get-together ...
Local represents NZ in Croatia
23rd of November 2022FOR THE past two years, Aria clay target shooter Natalie Foss has been smashing competitions across ...
ANZAC - Looking forward
2nd of October 2022Despite uncertainly around Covid restrictions our 2021 Anzac Commemoration service went ahead with ...
Fence-a-thon for our youth
2nd of October 2022ON Saturday, Piopio local Heath Barnsdall and his support crew completed a 24-hour ...
Farewell to our caring Koro - Raymond Kopereihana Coffin
2nd of October 2022My name is Shayna Le Gros. It is a true honour to call this man our Koro and on behalf of all his ...
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 ...
Birdtalk Magazine welcomes new team member
11th of June 2022Introducing Jules Hi everyone! It’s Jules Taitoko here . . . you may know me from such ...
Local heroine, Val Perry retires from St John
11th of June 2022LOCAL heroine Val Perry is retiring from ambulance duty after 16 years of volunteer service with St ...
Piopio College welcomes new principal
11th of June 2022“Ehara taku toa I te toa takitahi Engari, he toa takitini” My strength is not as an ...
KC Rivercare Update
2nd of October 2022Thank you everyone for your support over the past few months – we know it has been challenging ...
Curious Keas Celebrates 10 years!!
12th of June 2022It feels like only a year or two ago that Curious Keas opened its doors to Piopio’s Preschoolers, ...
Coffee Club successes keep brewing
11th of June 2022PIOPIO College Trust Coffee Club supports 14 Piopio College students for their successes and ...
Cocking Cup Cup Winners
2nd of October 2022On Thursday, July 28 the Aria Cosmopolitan Club hosted about 26 snooker players to vie for the ...
The Food Goes Wild in Aria
2nd of October 2022SOME wonderfully wild dishes were presented at the Wild Food Cook-Off at Aria Cosmopolitan Club ...
Message from outgoing editor, Kate Carter. How lucky are we?
12th of June 2022For as long as I have known it, Piopio has been a community of proactive, get up and go kind of ...
WELCOME BACK TO LYNNE
7th of December 2021Just a little about myself… I have returned to Piopio to continue my Real Estate career after ...
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, ...
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 ...