17 days ago

Poll: Have hard times led to closures in your area?

Libby Reporter from Waikato Local

Tokoroa’s “social supermarket” has quietly closed its doors after its founder could not afford to keep it running any longer.

Opened in August 2022 by Auckland-based community leader and former professional boxer David Letele and his BBM (Buttabean Motivation) health charity, the social supermarket handed out the last of its supplies not long after Christmas.

Have hard times led to closures in your area? Tell us more in the comments (adding NFP if you don't want your words used in print).

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Have hard times led to closures in your area?
  • 50% Yes
    50% Complete
  • 41.7% Not sure
    41.7% Complete
  • 8.3% No
    8.3% Complete
12 votes
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1 day ago

Hoarder’s burden lifted as property turns from dump to developer’s dream

Libby Totton Reporter from Waikato Times

Developers are now eyeing up the property of a Hamilton hoarder that only weeks ago was an eyesore of exploding rubbish bags and trash.

The clean-up job which is expected to cost “tens of thousands” is still underway, with diggers scraping up the last remains of decades-worth of hoarding and illegally dumped rubbish.

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3 hours ago

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