Waipā District Councill opened Cambridge’s new skatepark in Dominion Avenue on Friday. Construction began on the $800,000 project began in early August. Waipā District Council’s community services manager Brad Ward said the skatepark is more…
Waipā District Councill opened Cambridge’s new skatepark in Dominion Avenue on Friday. Construction began on the $800,000 project began in early August. Waipā District Council’s community services manager Brad Ward said the skatepark is more…
When Waikato University celebrated its 90,000th graduate it sparked a celebration which had a true Waipā flavour. The student was Cole McOnie, an international class BMX rider from Te Awamutu. To recognise the achievement, the…
Waipā-King Country’s Clyde Graf has been elected Waikato Regional Council’s environmental performance committee chair. And in a shock, his experienced colleague Stu Kneebone of Cambridge missed out on chairing any of the key “discretionary” council…
Fifteen restaurants combined to donate food to support Achievement House’s annual Christmas party – which came with music from Cambridge Rotary’s Bruised Brothers. Achievement House in Cambridge offers part-time employment and volunteer opportunities for those…
It might have been, in Kelly Bouzaid’s words, a “tumultuous year” but the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce finished it financially healthy and committed to advocacy. In her chief executive’s report to the 34th annual meeting…
It’s the only sporting event I can recall where the competitors make a point of approaching the media to say hello. The national Special Olympics in Hamilton wrapped up last weekend at the somewhat stunted…
A community newspaper advertising campaign calling for registered and enrolled nurses and midwives keen to return to work at Waikato, Thames, Te Kūiti, Taumarunui or Tokoroa hospitals has hit the target. The News understands within…
She is not even three days old yet, but already Mia MacKay has created history. Cambridge Community Board member Alana MacKay and husband Phil welcomed their first child, a daughter Mia Christina McCathie MacKay, born…
Kathy Miller has been a teacher for 50 years and as she contemplates life away from the classroom, she keeps coming back to the profession that was always more than a job for her. “I…
Waipā ratepayers paid a Christchurch company $9.23c for every vote cast in the recent local body elections. The $145,000 bill from ElectionNZ to run the election netted 15,703 votes for a 39.65 per cent return….
