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Invaluable service at risk in Cambridge 

A free service offering professional help to parents needing support with their babies and toddlers may have to close in Cambridge if more people don’t use it. The Hamilton-based Waikato Family Centre provides a free…

Cayden bounces back for lead role 

Cayden Buitendach’s elevation to head boy at Hamilton Boys’ High School is made more significant when held up against the gruelling battle he has been through. Just one football game in May last year left…

Where do the children play?

Cambridge keeps growing with residential development, but children are being ignored because there is a lack of playgrounds in the subdivisions. “We are not looking after the younger members of our community,” Cambridge Community Board…

Businesses push for more clarity 

Clarity around Covid traffic light levels and timeframes, less confusion around mandates and financial support packages, and a call to open borders to international tourists as soon as possible – these were some of the…

Wheels turning on new cycleway 

More than 1400 people used the new 4.5km Waipā section of the Te Awa River Ride on the weekend, including the council’s chief executive. Garry Dyet and wife Donna parked their car at the Cambridge…

Saluting local heroes 

Fire service volunteers and ambulance staff are “amazing”, say Cambridge friends Carolyn Wallis and Matt Johnston. Carolyn and Matt witnessed first responders in action on February 7 after Matt’s father Greg suffered a cardiac arrest…

Getting the best apple pie off pat

Win one of Cathy O’Shea’s Irish Apple Pies for St Patrick’s Day. Send your best Irish story to [email protected] It’s that time of year well known Waikato real estate agent and Irish historian Cathy O’Shea…

Wardens on patrol

Maree Paparoa loves Cambridge so much she volunteered to cop the odd abuse and terse word because “it’s my town.” Maree is part of the Cambridge Māori warden presence at Cambridge Raceway directing traffic to…

Worth a book? Council eyes library site

More details of the thwarted attempt by Waipā District Council to buy the former Bunnings building in Cambridge for a new library have been revealed, as has an alternative site. The council’s Property Projects manager…

Rift over media ‘deal’

A “quite cosy” exclusive deal arranged by Te Awamutu Community Board chair Ange Holt with a media company she has had an involvement in has drawn flak from her own members. It was announced last…

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