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Waipā visitor boom

Cambridge Chamber of Commerce says 50,000 people through the central business district last week proves the economic benefit events bring to the district. Numbers hit an all-time high on March 26 when the Autumn Festival’s…

Town Hall venue ‘brilliant’

There were plenty of familiar faces among members of Youth Orchestra Waikato who provided Cambridge Autumn Festival’s final and best-attended hurrah in the Town Hall on Sunday. Ten of the musicians are from the wider…

Me and my Kiwi Momma

Wendy Klyen looked across her hospital bed, saw a young, bruised and heavily bandaged woman lying on her back unable to do anything and knew she had to help. It was May 2018 and Wendy,…

Our heritage sites

Cambridge: Water Tower, Courthouse (Former), Monavale Homestead, Legal Chambers (Former), Trecarne Stables, Trecarne House, Band Rotundas – Cambridge and Leamington, Valmai Gazebo/Conservatory, Valmai House, Arnold House, Salvation Army Hall, Oddfellows Lodge (Former), Town Hall, World…

Online and growing…

Readers have discovered Cambridge News is available online first thing on Thursday morning, website statistics for March show. The www.cambridgenews.nz front page was the most visited with nearly 20 per cent of all visits last…

Piarere roading plan approved

Waka Kotahi has the go ahead to continue planning for a roundabout to deal with a nightmare intersection. The Environment Court has approved its proposal to replace the T-intersection on State Highway 1 at Piarere…

Brown takes Museum post

3 April Update – Andrew Brown was today appointed Te Ara Wai Governance Committee chair. An earlier version of the story in print below jumped the gun and suggested he had already been appointed. The…

Bill set for Governor’s role

Cambridge’s Bill Robinson will soon step into a pivotal Rotary International role that will have been two full years in the planning. On July 1 of 2021 and 2022 respectively, Bill was named Rotary’s District…

Delay by design

When you turn on the hot tap in the kitchen in our house, you can fill up our common or garden watering can with cold water before it gets hot. That’s just over 5 litres….

When rocks fly

The day this comes out I will be in the field with PhD student Amilea Sork, looking at huge rocks that were violently thrown out of the Ngāuruhoe crater during the 1950s and 1970s eruptions….

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