For the past 125 years Cambridge Bowling Club has been hosting major bowling competitions, from the National Easter Tournament which ran for 109 years, to our very popular annual Business House Tournament which has been…
For the past 125 years Cambridge Bowling Club has been hosting major bowling competitions, from the National Easter Tournament which ran for 109 years, to our very popular annual Business House Tournament which has been…
Cambridge Middle School student Alanna Rawson has smashed a series of swimming records at the Waikato intermediate school championships. The 12-year-old year eight student broke three records – including one dating back to 1983. Her…
Waipā riders were to the fore at last weekend’s national BMX champs in Tauranga. Cambridge’s Leila Walker and North Harbour’s Rico Bearman claimed the overall elite honours – both also had under-23 Union Cycliste Internationale…
In my line of work “I have a dumb question” is usually followed by a great question that has a complicated answer. “How do volcanoes erupt?” is one of these, and really should be explained…
During an interview, Albert Einstein once said, “imagination is more important than knowledge”. Nobody could refute the fact that that our imagination is a massively potent faculty. It’s capable of producing both good or bad…
Gliding silently (and carefully) through our village the other day my mind turned to the advantages – or otherwise – of not depending on fossil fuels for vehicular propulsion. Yes, I have become one of…
One of the more disturbing aspects of natural life, I found as a child, was the fact that having overcome its prey, your average predator would simply begin to eat it. This practice is widespread…
A lawyer suspended after apparently losing his moral compass is Takena Stirling, Waipā’s first Māori ward councillor. The Law Society posted details of the suspension on its website yesterday (Thursday 16 March). That caught Waipā…
For some time now I’ve had a backup idea, a column-writing safety net of sorts. That is to say with a blank screen in front of me, a rapidly approaching deadline, and no subject on…
The rain events we’ve experienced this summer have been hugely challenging for some parts of the country. Acknowledging that the Coromandel has suffered significant landslip damage due to saturated catchments, creating major issues with the…
