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Another scalp for Covid

The season is over for Cambridge’s Reds after the cancellation of football’s Northern League. Continuing restrictions on crowd sizes in Auckland has hindered the competition and administrators have called an early end, with the Reds…

Kōkako fights back

Numbers of one of New Zealand’s great songbirds have doubled at the country’s biggest inland sanctuary. The latest kōkako census at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari revealed a tally of 47 territorial pairs and seven single birds….

Friends in high places

Ten-year-old Elliot Ismay organised a day of fun for his schoolmates last week that raised nearly $2500 for the Waikato Westpac Rescue Helicopter service. The year six student teamed up with friends James Morgan, Daniel…

What’s the buzz?

Cambridge High School was far from alone when its plans for a student production were upturned by Covid-19. But it was one of few schools to push through with its musical, which CHS brought to…

Grape expectations

  The 2020 Blue Ruru Pinot Gris has a secondary link. Secondary school, to be accurate – the grapes for the wine are grown at St Peter’s Cambridge. The bottling of this year’s vintage, in…

New station – but hours the same

A proposed new police base in Cambridge will not be manned around the clock. The station could be the first in the Waikato built under a partnership agreement signed between New Zealand Police and Tainui…

Bunnings goes, space for rent

A major retailer which shut up shop in Waipā last week is remaining tight-lipped on what will occupy the two sizeable retail spaces left vacant by its departure. The collective jobs of more than 50…

Georgia’s winning ways

It was a song and dance at Cambridge High School on Saturday night as the school’s annual talent quest hit the stage. The event attracted about 10 acts, including everything from hip hop dancing to…

Just a dedicated follower of fashion…

Kathleen Marking says it’s in the genes. Her grandfather lived to 101 – and yesterday she went one better in Cambridge and celebrated her 102nd birthday. The resident at Selwyn St Andrew’s retirement village’s Moxon…

Armistice on again

  Armistice in Cambridge organisers have confirmed the 2020 event is a go – despite lockdown initially threatening its 21st addition. November 7-8 dates for the event at Mighty River Domain at Lake Karapiro –…

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