Lights, camera, action – that’s a refrain you could be hearing more in Waipā with the establishment of a Waikato regional film office. Waikato Screen, as it will be known, will share offices with its…
Lights, camera, action – that’s a refrain you could be hearing more in Waipā with the establishment of a Waikato regional film office. Waikato Screen, as it will be known, will share offices with its…
A 30-year $10.4 million plan to get thousands of Waipā people out of their cars and onto walking and cycle tracks in Cambridge, Te Awamutu and Kihikihi has been signed off by district councillors. The…
All going to plan, the 2021 Rotary Garden Festival will go ahead as scheduled on November 21. Uncertainty around changing Covid-19 levels has prompted some to question whether this year’s festival might be postponed, as has been the case with…
A small Waipā farm is catering for a growing demand for raw milk. Humpbridge Milk, which opened in 2018, has become a popular service, giving customers an insight into milk production. The self-serve shop and…
This year’s global walk to celebrate the value of older people will go ahead at Cambridge Raceway as planned on September 27, unless there is a reversal of Covid levels. Organiser Florence Shearman said the event would proceed if current…
Businesses in Cambridge are increasingly concerned about surviving alert level 2, Taupō MP Louise Upston says. She said that was the feedback she was getting from Cambridge Chamber of Commerce chief Kelly Bouzaid “Businesses reaching out to my electorate office too report the…
OBITUARY: ROGER JENNINGS: 1.07.1950 – 31.08.2021 In Roger Jennings’ world, there was scarcely a stopped timepiece he couldn’t re-start. For more than five decades, he thrilled at the precision workings of clocks and watches. Big or small,…
Cambridge’s cricket season could be delayed – but not because the Town Square pitch won’t be ready. Club stalwart Simon Dodds, speaking to The News on Sunday as he mowed the lush wicket, said…
Tuesday’s apology by Auckland couple William Willis and Hannah Rawnsley for a flagrant breach of Lockdown rules was as orchestrated as the trip they took. The best one could say about the couple was that…
Any financial benefits in changing the management of water services throughout New Zealand are unlikely to have a long-term significant impact in Waipā, district councillors have been told. A Service Delivery workshop was held on Tuesday to prepare councillors to make a…
