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A group of about 30 people attended the Hautapu Cemetery tour on Sunday run by Cambridge Museum and featuring historian and author Lyn Williams. The Dead Tell Tales event was such a success, the museum…

It might seem like a cop-out to write about the teenagers again, but they are the source that keeps on giving. He’s got his driving licence now, and completed a defensive driving course, but it’s…

Newly-minted centenarian Ken Hanlon is just about as good a plug for clean living as you could find. The Resthaven Cambridge resident turned 100 this month, and while perhaps less nimble on his feet than…

Nuclear physicist Dr Gavin Wallace describes some approaches to nuclear power as ‘irrational’ and says the radiation that surrounds us most of the time is nowhere near as harmful as many think it is. Speaking…

If there was a budget blowout of $10 billion in the health or education areas, it would be the subject of intense criticism and recrimination. There has been a $10 billion blowout in the cost…

Cambridge Resthaven residents marked Anzac Day on Monday with a service at their village centre in Vogel St. The service was conducted by Cambridge RSA’s Brigadier Jon Broadley MBE, and was attended by several men…

About 20 motorcyclists and their partners joined residents, RSA members and the clergy at Pukeatua War Memorial Church on Sunday for the 2023 Anzac memorial service. The church is one of just two in New…

Over 9000 students, three rubbish bins It is hard enough as a parent to get your child to recycle, well try over 9000 secondary school students to do it over a week’s long rowing competition….

Rose Town is likely to remain the brand name for Te Awamutu after 60 per cent of the people surveyed said it was still a relevant tag line for the town. But the ‘Who are…

While conversing with an older couple, the wife described how she did not share in the slightest, her husband’s enthusiastic, avid passion for golf. She described earlier years in their marriage where she felt abandoned-…