Time has been standing still in Cambridge and Kihikihi – but not for much longer. Waipā District Council stopped winding Cambridge’s iconic clock when the town went into lockdown, and it stalled at 6.09 ever since. Staff stopped winding…
Time has been standing still in Cambridge and Kihikihi – but not for much longer. Waipā District Council stopped winding Cambridge’s iconic clock when the town went into lockdown, and it stalled at 6.09 ever since. Staff stopped winding…
James McDonald is “one in a million” and should be included in Cambridge’s Walk of Fame, says Sheila Laxon. Laxon, who now lives on Australia’s Sunshine Coast, has her own plaque in the Duke St…
Cambridge Motorcycle Club must leave its home of more than 50 years because a new subdivision is being built next door. Motocross mum Jen Franklin says she is devastated her husband Nick Price and their…
Tivoli’s silver screens are now accompanied by perspex screens. Shane Jarrett is following the lead of a fellow theatre owner by partitioning the twin seats in his three Cambridge cinemas. “It won’t stop Covid but I hope it will…
Greetings for another week, Some of you may have noticed a Police presence near Lake Karāpiro last Friday. The incident in question was a good prompt for a message to all those Airbnb hosts in our community. Many of the guests you host…
Editor, writer and manuscript consultant Stephen Stratford was so well known in the Cambridge cafés he frequented that before he had sat down, his favourite short black coffee had already been delivered to the table….
Waipā District Council will make a $15,000 contribution towards a new group which will lobby government to stall its controversial Three Waters Reforms. Councillors debated the source of the funding and whether it was council’s…
Tainui-owned Māori public health provider Hāpai Te Hauora says a new liquor store in Cambridge’s Victoria Street will target vulnerable people. But because its objection to the Blue Drops application to establish an off-licence facility…
By Peter Carr On Tuesday of this week, I had reason to drive over the Kaimai Hill twice – on a very warm and muggy day. And along with all the car drivers who are…
By Peter Matthews Kermit said “It’s not easy being green” and he’s right. The wife tells me I have been a bit negative today and she’s right too. Of course my view is that I…
