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It’s great to create

Lori Neels describes quilting as “cheaper than therapy.” The award-winning quilter is part of the Cambridge Patchwork and Craft group which meet every fortnight at…

Scout’s honour for Riley

Riley Willmoth is a prize-winning tramper. The 14-year-old Cambridge Scout Group member and Cambridge High School pupil walked away from this year’s Scouts Aotearoa Waikato…

Taut on the recruiting front

A Waipā principal says schools are struggling to recruit teachers and the fields of applicants is as thin as he has seen in 25 years…

Catherine’s horses and pet projects

Cambridge may be small by international standards, but a surprising number of artists with global reach call the town home. The extent of that talent…

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Two titles for Jakob

Cambridge High School student Jakob Robbers, 13, won two national titles at the New Zealand Secondary School Kayaking National Championships on Lake Tikitapu in Rotorua…

Million dollar race

Champion Australian pacer Leap to Fame will contest the $1 million Race of Champions at Cambridge Raceway tomorrow night and caught the plane over on…

Cambridge drop points

Cambridge have tasted their first league defeat in more than a year. The newly promoted Northern League championship side was beaten 2-0 by former New…

A Maadi regatta to remember

Estimating crowd numbers can be a fraught exercise unless you’re an expert like Mighty River Domain site manager Liz Stolwyk. Finals day for the Maadi…

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Forces beneath our feet

I’ve been thinking about the vast, interconnected processes that shape our world. As a geoscientist – someone who studies the Earth – I work across…

Marvellous Maadi

Each fortnight I am driven to sit at my computer and settle on a suitable subject for this opinion piece. Sometimes it is obvious –…

A letter from Nepal

As I write, I’m on day four of a 10 day trip in Nepal. Landing in Kathmandu brought back memories of my last visit in…

Democracy relies on us

New Zealand is small enough to give each of us almost unmatched access to decision-makers at national and local level compared with most western nations….