We’re Waikato’s ‘Ponsonby’
Destination Cambridge’s new chair Martin Buglass is seeking a more collaborative approach to enticing visitors to stay longer in a town he describes as the jewel of Waipā. He wants key entities to work more…
Destination Cambridge’s new chair Martin Buglass is seeking a more collaborative approach to enticing visitors to stay longer in a town he describes as the jewel of Waipā. He wants key entities to work more…
Nominations have opened across the country for school board elections. With the closing date for submissions approaching, Matteo Di Maio talked to two departing Cambridge school board members about their time in the role and…
Every dentist appointment and family gathering; every awkwardly silent moment that to everyone but me begs for Smalltalk seems to herald the arrival of the same question these last few months: ‘so, what are you…
Cambridge High’s annual $1000 Ritchie Pickett scholarship for excellence in music has gone to drums and piano musician—and year 13 student—Ben Wiles. Ritchie Pickett was a New Zealand country music singer-songwriter described by NZ Musician…
Cambridge High School’s deputy principal John McDonnell will don his international cycling commissaire alter-ego yet again this July as he heads to Birmingham to officiate in the 2022 Commonwealth Games. The Games, which open on…
Those who gathered around the blue and yellow lit Cambridge Town Hall on Friday did so for “one simple reason,” Cambridge High School head girl Anna Smith says. “[We gathered] to show our support to…
It was a wild and windy day in Cambridge last Sunday, as the remnants of tropical Cyclone Dovi hit the North Island. In total, the MetService issued 17 severe weather warnings, while many parts of…
Time’s Person of the Year is inventor-cum-possible Bond villain Elon Musk, and some people are not happy about it. Those opinions aside, I couldn’t help noticing the contrast between this year’s figure and Greta Thunberg,…
Here’s an idea: did New Zealand make a big mistake on June 8, 1987? That was the year and the month, of course, that New Zealand banned anything nuclear from our island. In the aftermath…
Matariki will not become an official national public holiday until June 24 next year, but for Cambridge High School, attempts to entrench the event in the school’s future culture have already begun. Friday 10 July…