Twelve Cambridge Primary School students have raised $2772 for the Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade. The money will help fit out the brigade’s new Ford F150 support vehicle with a water tank, pump and other “bits…
Twelve Cambridge Primary School students have raised $2772 for the Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade. The money will help fit out the brigade’s new Ford F150 support vehicle with a water tank, pump and other “bits…
Three Cambridge men who have given decades of delight to families were presented with Community Service awards last Saturday from the town’s community board. The surprise presentations were made to Dennis Lloyd, known colloquially as…
Jeanette Hobern changed her look dramatically in the blink of an eye last Saturday. In around 15 minutes, the former Girl Guide NZ district governor went from having the longest hair of her life to…
It was a day of mixed emotions when Sir Patrick Hogan visited his former farm Cambridge Stud to attend a luncheon to honour the memory of Queen Elizabeth II. Thirty-two years previously the Queen was…
Urban Miners has a new truck thanks to what is probably the last piece of generosity by Waipā councillors in this term. At its final meeting in Te Awamutu on Tuesday, councillors agreed to gift…
A huge tract of Waipā land bordering Hamilton to the west and south will be transferred to the city council in a strategic agreement between the two local authorities. But it could be years before…
Twenty five Waipā residents, who swore their allegiances to King Charles III last week to become citizens, can probably lay claim to being among the first in the Commonwealth to do so. There was no…
Waipā disability organisations appear to have kept their concerns under the radar during the local body election campaign if responses to The News’ latest candidate surveys are anything to go by. Twenty five percent of…
Self-proclaimed evangelist Chris Woodhams warned Cambridge will “drown in our own poo” without a new wastewater treatment plant and an infrastructure upgrade. He gave himself the title of an evangelist and made the sewage claim…
Two Waipā men who survived the ill-fated Enchanter charter boat tragedy off North Cape in March have returned to publicly thank the helicopter heroes who pulled them from the sea off North Cape in March….
