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Quizmasters win $1000

A team of Year 7 and 8 students from St Peter’s School won the regional Lit Quiz competition held at Southwell School recently, where 51 teams competed. This has qualified the team for nationals, to…

Reds face challenge this weekend

Cambridge face their biggest challenge so far in football’s Northern League when competition leaders Takapuna AFC visit this Saturday. The Aucklanders are the only unbeaten team in the Lotto NRFL second division and have become…

‘Ironman’ on his way to world champs

Hot on the heels of completing in his first Ironman event in March, ex-CHS head boy Taine Rose is already preparing for his next adventure – competing at the Long-Distance Triathlon World Championships in Denmark…

Remembering George Boulton

As requested by George himself, Carole Hughes shares the life and story of Cambridge newspaper legend George Boulton. The newspaper industry was in George Boulton’s blood. His father Sam Boulton was one of the owners…

Mycoplasma bovis meeting packed

It was standing room only at Friday’s Mycoplasma bovis meeting at the Don Rowlands Centre, with around 700 people packing in to hear the latest on the outbreak that has now reached Cambridge. Representatives from…

Baking the ancient way

The next time a piece of warm, new bread has your taste buds dancing, spare a thought for those who had to find a safe way to bake it thousands of years ago. It’s a…

Heading to the top for charity

Four Cambridge volunteer firefighters joined around 950 others in a race up the Auckland Sky Tower last Saturday, taking the 1,103 steps to the top clad in full firefighting kit and breathing apparatus weighing up…

Breaking up with plastic, for good

With more and more of locals breaking up with single-use plastic bags in favour of reusable bags, the use of the ubiquitous shopping bag seems to be in decline. But the bags are just the…

Pool demolition underway

The morning’s heavy rain last Monday held off for just a moment to allow the site blessing of the new Cambridge pool complex to get underway. A rainbow suitably showed its colours as local iwi…

BMXers off to world champs

One third of the New Zealand team heading to the BMX World Championships this week hail from Cambridge. The ten-person team said they’re very excited for the event and feel more ready than ever, having…

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