After 20 years at Cambridge Kindergarten Carol Tancock has retired from full-time teaching. Carol arrived at the kindergarten in 2002 and was head teacher until last year, when a bout of ill health prompted her…
After 20 years at Cambridge Kindergarten Carol Tancock has retired from full-time teaching. Carol arrived at the kindergarten in 2002 and was head teacher until last year, when a bout of ill health prompted her…
Five Cambridge residents have been named on the establishment board for the town’s new primary school. Hinerangi Kara, Susan Duignan, Dianne Pacey, Michelle Skipworth and Paul Matthews will have support from governance facilitator Shawn Gielen….
Youth offending is my first focus this week. We have seen an increase in youth crime – burglary, thefts, wilful damage, assaults, graffiti and general disorder. Sometimes teens act differently when they are in a…
Author David ‘Dave’ Farrell is deeply grateful for his upbringing in the former Rhodesia. A free, rough-and-tumble childhood under the sun, later tempered by lessons learned in the English-style boarding school environment, gave him a…
Waipā council has identified five “very high” risks to its operations and 14 risks in total. In her report to the council’s Audit and Risk committee this week, risk advisor Genny Wilson listed inadequate staffing,…
Two Cambridge nursing leaders have been appointed honorary professors at Waikato University’s Te Huataki Waiora School of Health. Jan Adams and Sue Hayward have both been nurses and midwives for more than 45 years and…
The Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade’s new chief fire officer Dennis Hunt is promising a tenure that honours the work done by his predecessor Don Gerrand while acknowledging a need to bring the brigade into the…
Waikato Regional Council has unveiled its draft regional public transport priorities for the next 30 years. The plan includes bringing climate change and emission reductions from a footnote to a headline and introduces greater connectivity…
Two mobile baristas are using their coffee-making skills from quite different platforms. Miriam Ellis parks her custom-made cycle coffee cart in Payne Park outside Resthaven in Cambridge while Te Awamutu’s Rebecca Petch plies her trade…
Dogs look certain to remain welcome at Cambridge’s Lake Te Koo Utu – but a call from the district council for community feedback has been met with howls of criticism Waipā District Council announced last…
