Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 30 April 2013
Seat makes a mark
Suburbs can’t seal the deal
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TV switched over
By Sinead Ogilvie The big changeover from analogue to digital TV happened with just the flick of a switch and a group of local men who were crucial to TV’s first appearances in Nelson got to play a final part in
the historical event. The tower atop the Grampians has been turned off following Sunday’s digital changeover and for Laurie Merrick and his team of
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City retailers join forces Some Nelson businesses are using the old mantra “power in numbers” to keep their operating costs down and they say it’s not only good for their bottom line but good for productivity as well. In the past few years a number of Nelson businesses have taken the opportunity
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andrew@nelsonweekly.co.nz to share leased space and the lowered rent costs that come with it. The move is
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becoming more popular and last week another Nelson business announced they are closing their doors only to reopen them in a shared space with another business. Phil Jordan and Ricky Dasler of Living Sound will close their Hardy St store at the end of May and will co-lease a new site
with a technology-based retailer, which wanted their involvment kept low key for now. The duo from Living Sound say their current premises has been a hi-fi store
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