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The teacher who couldn’t quit

Roto-o-Rangi School teacher Pam Furze is retiring – reluctantly. After almost 50 years in the education sector, and 20 years at the school as a teacher and sports leader, Pam is working up to her…

104 years on

The French and New Zealand flags flew at half mast next to the Fred Graham sculpture in Lake Te Koo Utu Domain last week to mark 104 years since New Zealand soldiers liberated the northern…

Concert in the park

The late withdrawal of Cambridge Brass Band musical director Rob Hocking with Covid and inclement weather meant attendance for the annual free Armistice Salute Concert on Sunday, in front of the Victoria Park cricket pavilion,…

Stand and deliver…

Do not expect to see any political in-fighting on the Cambridge Community Board while Jo Davies-Colley is chair. It is an environment she wants nothing to do with and she thinks voters and mayor Susan…

Weeding out lake issues

A robotic kayak invented by Waipā engineer Jeffrey To is on course to capture what’s going on in Waikato’s lakes. Ngā Roto near Te Awamutu has koi carp aplenty, some sunken objects including a 55m…

Questions, questions …..

Six Waipā residents have put in 15 per cent of the 434 official information requests to the council in the last year, taking up more than eight weeks’ staff time. The most prolific requester, with…

Matteo has the write stuff

Matteo Di Maio’s dazzling intellect has already won him many admirers in the world of journalism. It also won him Cambridge High School’s coveted dux award last week. It’s a big call, labelling someone a…

Fresh fields for football

A $900,000 project to provide two more year-round pitches starts next week at the home of Cambridge football. The work will involve two fields to the north of the existing playing fields outside the northern…

It’s a family affair…

David Butcher and sons Zachary and Benjamin created history at the New Zealand Trotting Cup meeting in Christchurch yesterday, but it wasn’t for having prize-winning drives. Cambridge-based David, 58, has been involved as a driver…

Our women in politics

Waikato’s female local body leaders have committed to reviving the Women in Politics movement buoyed by their performances in the recent elections. Hamilton deputy mayor Angela O’Leary will coordinate the group which was popular when…

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