Cambridge’s High Level Victoria Bridge is to have a $2.6 million facelift for the first time in more than 20 years. Work is expected to start in September and Waipā District Council transportation manager Bryan…
A general review of housing in the district has been delayed by six months because of a heavy workload at Waipā District Council. Known internally as Draft Plan Change 21, the scope of work includes…
Waipā’s population has cracked 60,000 for the first time in its 33-year history, up from 48,200 a decade ago. But whether that growth continues depends on what council policy advisor David Totman calls a “rogue…
Waipā District Council has held a series of behind closed doors meetings and interviews to discuss the future role of community boards. The talkfest between council staff, councillors and community stakeholders comes only a week…
Cambridge centreback Maria Cameron intercepts a through ball during Cambridge’s 3-0 home win over Ngāruawahia in a Waikato women’s first division match last weekend. Cambridge, fourth equal on the points tables, travels to Melville on…
Every dentist appointment and family gathering; every awkwardly silent moment that to everyone but me begs for Smalltalk seems to herald the arrival of the same question these last few months: ‘so, what are you…
There are journalists and there are reporters. And there are reporters masquerading as journalists. Sadly, television in this country has a preponderance of the latter. And there are invited opinion writers like me who have…
Tom Montgomerie has walked the walk – and lunged the lunges. Tom, passionate about tackling climate change, has just donated more than $2700 to the Cambridge Tree Trust after using his skills to tackle a…
Local bodies around the country responded to the Covid outbreak by turning to digital media. Meetings were held using the Zoom app, and more and more were livestreamed for the public to watch. A consequence…
