Waipā District Council is streamlining its public art collection. Today’s Strategic Planning and Policy Committee agreed staff should reduce council’s 104-piece indoor art collection down to 70 works, disposing of 34 items. Museum and heritage…
Waipā District Council is streamlining its public art collection. Today’s Strategic Planning and Policy Committee agreed staff should reduce council’s 104-piece indoor art collection down to 70 works, disposing of 34 items. Museum and heritage…
Fifteen large, poisoned trees, and a group of smaller weed-type trees, are being removed on Karāpiro’s Maungatautari Road. The removal of the exotic trees near the Brooklyn Water Ski Club starts Monday and will take…
Waipā’s tree maintenance contract has been extended with Treescape Limited for another two years. This comes after a successful four-year contract ensuring trees in the parks and urban streets of Waipā were proactively and safely…
Champion again Waipā councillor Andrew Brown has taken out the Te Awamutu Golf Club’s intermediate division of the club championship for the fifth time. Brown, who plays off a 10.7 handicap, won it for the…
Cambridge’s historic town clock is now a timer without a chimer. But residents and local businesses who use the regular pealing to keep track of their day need not fret. The ‘Westminster Chimes’ sequence –…
Cambridge project manager Jonathan Kay finds himself leading the body count in the Hamilton Playbox’s production of the satirical thriller Popcorn. Kay, who’s real life centres on civil construction, also loves acting and most recently…
Motorists using a black spot intersection in Waipā are now seeing reduced speed limit signs there. Between 2011 and 2021 there were five serious injury crashes and one fatality at the intersection of State Highway…
The half century story of how a small Te Awamutu music group grew to become one of the jewels in Waipā’s crown was celebrated at a concert in the town last Sunday. The ‘50th Celebration…
A two-year bus trial to and from Hamilton is planned for Matangi and Tamahere commuters. But it comes with a proviso. The public transport trial should not come at the expense of the communities’ school…
Magpie madness is back. Throughout the year the boisterous birds can often be seen in the skies defending their territories with two-on-one attacks on kahu – the harrier hawk. Those within hearing range of their…
