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Ultra special finish for Chris

After finishing the race of his life in France on Sunday night Cambridge time, Chris Atkinson told his wife Dee that it ranked as the hardest thing he had ever done, and any subsequent trail…

Community hub to refresh

A funding application has been lodged to kickstart a significant refurbishment project at Taylor Made Spaces. The long-term project will take place over three stages, with the first to start in late January – assuming…

It’s a kenpo medal haul

Jeff Speakman’s Kenpo 5.0 Cambridge martial arts members look set to kick on from impressive results at their first tournament in four years. About 20 competitors travelled to take on their west Auckland counterparts, and…

Church window plan unveiled

St John’s Anglican Parish in Te Awamutu has confirmed an “awfully difficult” decision. The News revealed last month that historic stained-glass windows at both of Waikato’s only category one historic buildings – part of the…

Mystery at the Square

Reporter Mary Anne Gill was rushing to another job and couldn’t stop to ask this man what he was doing on Victoria Square last week. The man seemed to be using a metal detector and…

Road work date pushed back

Installing a temporary pedestrian and cycle path along Cambridge Road to the Velodrome took contractors longer than anticipated and put the urbanisation project weeks behind schedule. Signs for the Cambridge Road urbanisation project show a…

Detecting warning signs

The ability to monitor volcanoes comes from a solid mix of technology, research, time, and experience. Thankfully, here in New Zealand we have these things. Before an eruption occurs – which is where magmatic material…

Museum work – almost a wrap

Refurbishing old buildings can sometimes come with surprises and that is what has happened at the historic Cambridge Court House, now home to the Cambridge Museum. Waipā District Council property manager David Varcoe said while…

Richness in diversity

The village of Matangi is now home to the fourth Romanian Orthodox church to be consecrated in New Zealand. St David’s Matangi, built in 1933 and formerly part of the St Francis Cooperating Parish of…

Vote for us? No thanks

“It makes absolutely no sense to be bringing the age down two years… young adults wouldn’t have a clue who they would be voting for and wouldn’t understand the true concept of it all.” “People…

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