By CARROLL, Joanne in Alexandra THE Maniototo Community Board has decided to fluoridate Ranfurly's public drinking water supplies. The board members voted three to two for fluoridation at their meeting in Ranfurly yesterday.

By CARROLL, Joanne SUBMISSIONS on the resource consent application for the multi million-dollar Gibbston Valley Station development have been overwhelmingly in favour of the project.

AN ENVIRONMENT COURT hearing into a $1.5 billion wind farm proposal for Otago will take up to six weeks and involve about 80 witnesses.

By WILSON, Aimee in Alexandra `It's the only complete reminder of the dredging industry in Central Otago.' Alexandra historian Cam Withington MOST bikers on the Otago Central Rail Trail are oblivious to the remains of the world's oldest recovered gold dredge, lying on a riverbank near Chatto Creek.

By AIMEE WILSON in Alexandra THE hearing for a private hydroelectric power scheme south of Millers Flat has been set down for early next month. Talla Burn Generation is a newly formed company founded by Roxburgh contractor Jeff Wilson and Beaumont Station owner Alan Hore.