Waikato Regional Council is keeping its fingers crossed as it continues flood protection maintenance work throughout the region during Covid restrictions. Integrated Catchment Management Director Greg Ryan says flood protection work continues to achieve its…
Community boards need to improve their performances in Te Awamutu and Cambridge and the best way to ensure that is to review what their roles and functions are, a Waipā council committee has decided. Community…
I occasionally repeat a topic I’ve done before, usually with updated and expanded information – this is because we continue to get incidents where members of our community are being caught out by the same…
The Cambridge Community Board last week allocated $25,000 from the first round of their discretionary funding. The board has $59,697.25 to distribute in the financial year starting July 1. Thirty-two applications asking for $116,440 were…
Ben Carpenter jokes he did everything he could to stay away from farming. So how come he, wife Renee and their three children live on their own Te Kawa Road dairy farm on the Waipā-Ōtorohanga…
1.24pm – 14 October 2021 – A positive waste water COVID-19 test has been reported in Te Awamutu, in the Waipā District. The sample was taken on Tuesday, October 12. The Waikato District Health Board…
Sarah Matthews was on her honeymoon when she found out she had been elected to the Waipā Networks Trust. The first-time candidate, standing as Sarah Davies, topped the poll – leaving her no option but…
At his 60th birthday party, Gordon Grigg raised a glass to a life he described as a tapestry… vibrant with colour, sometimes stormy, filled with contentment, a loving family and lots of mirth and merriment. He…
Attendance at Waipā’s two community facilities in Te Awamutu and Cambridge is up 30.5 per cent, or nearly 60,000 more visitors, over the previous year. The financial year, which ended on June 30, was described by…
Forty years living here and 15 years working at Cambridge i-Site has secured Rachael Colgan’s position as one of the town’s most enthusiastic advocates. Last year, she was dubbed a ‘walking encyclopaedia’ by Destination Cambridge’s CEO Miff Macdiarmid,…
