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Season messages

Rev Jennie Savage Vicar, St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Cambridge Many take a journey over Christmas and the summer, to have a holiday, or to visit…

Safety message on the water

Water safety agencies are calling on people to take care on the Waikato River this summer, particularly around dams and lakes in the Waipā and…

Community comes first

The church leader who helped drive a $10 million affordable housing project is the Te Awamutu News person of the year for 2024, and speaks…

Future proofing the farm

“That eel has been here longer than I have,” says Judge Valley Dairies farmer John Hayward. “That’s exciting,” Hayward told the audience he welcomed onto…

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On a fast track ….

St Peter’s Cambridge’s head girl for 2025 is a young woman of many talents. Madeleine Waddell shattered New Zealand under-17 and under-18 women’s 400m running…

Celebrating our champions

Waipā Olympians and Paralympians who trained tirelessly, sacrificed so much and showed extraordinary courage, grit and determination were honoured in Cambridge last week. Not all…

It’s a top racquet

Cambridge Racquets Club has so much to celebrate, members decided to make an afternoon out of it. The club recently won club of the year…

Trans-Tasman rower exchange

Rowers from St Peter’s School in Cambridge spent a week in Australia last week and are now hosting their Australian compatriots in readiness for a…

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‘Shovel’ jobs done well

Waikato Regional Council recently closed down its “Shovel Ready Programme” of work, following a successful completion of a number of relatively significant projects that delivered…

Why we need social sciences

As a scientist who studies the world we live in and how it impacts us, I deeply value the social sciences. It is human involvement…

The real ‘heart’ of Christmas

Recent wrestling over the Treaty Principles Bill has stirred up some unfortunate engagements around reinterpreting Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Beyond debate is the historical record…

The year that was

Conscious that this is my last opinion offering for 2024 I have elected to be a little reflective with a wee touch of future thinking….