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Tributes flow for Rotorua nanny with ‘heart of gold’ now the focus of homicide investigation

Family and friends of the Rotorua woman whose death has launched a homicide investigation say she had a “heart of gold” who opened her home to children. The body of the 65-year-old, Sharlene Smith, ...
The New Zealand Herald

Hawke’s Bay homicide: Tributes flow for Rotorua nanny Sharlene Smith

Sharlene Smith (Shar, inset), whose death is the centre of a homicide investigation, was a much-loved mother, grandmother and friend. Family and friends of the Rotorua woman whose death has launched a ...
The New Zealand Herald

Sharlene Smith named as woman found dead at Hawke’s Bay worksite, homicide investigation launched

The death of a woman at a worksite in the Hawke’s Bay town of Omahu is being treated as a homicide. Police were called on February 3 after Sharlene Smith, 64, from Rotorua, was found dead on a Taihape ...
The Globe and Mail

Arlene Dickinson and Amber Mac cut ties with Canadian social media startup Gander Social

Canadian media personalities Arlene Dickinson and Amber MacArthur were drawn last year to back an Ottawa startup called Gander Social Inc. that had a unique mission: To create a social network by and ...
Cabinet

Arlene Ruth Smith

Arlene Ruth Smith formerly of Amherst, NH and Saint Petersburg, FL, died on January 22, 2026, at Bowman Place in Bedford, New Hampshire at the age of 97. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on ...