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Oaks residents come to the party

Flood-ravaged families in Hawkes Bay, first responders, and low-income families in south Auckland are benefiting from the work of an enthusiastic group of Cambridge Oaks Village residents. Soon after Cambridge Oaks opened around 2019, one…

Apprentices get backing

Ten apprentices have been presented with $1000 each as part of the Rotary Cambridge Apprenticeship Grant Scheme. The presentation marked the second year of the scheme.  Each was awarded the $1000 to go towards ongoing…

Council keeps mum on payments

Waipā District Council has declined to say how many consultants and contractors it uses and how much it costs the council. The request came from an activist group which supports lower taxes, less waste and…

Goodbye to the gallery

Twenty-seven years after Sandra Webb opened Heritage Gallery in Cambridge, she has finally called it quits. After mulling things over and putting behind her a year when she felt her energy flagging, she put the…

Fencourt answers SOS

Volunteers have stepped up to run Fencourt Hall, alleviating fears the popular facility would be turned over to council control. “We were delighted to see the locals coming out to support the hall and we’re…

Serving Fencourt for 89 years

Members of Fencourt Hall’s administrative committee have been given confidence that they will have successors when they stand down. The committee, which has been searching for new members for years, held a successful meeting on…

A Rockey Ella parrot show

Galah parrots Rockey and Ella are the nosey neighbours who roam central Cambridge, often drawing attention for their exotic pink and grey colouration and their freedom from a cage. The current party of parrots, who…

Pushing out the plastic

Two volunteers from Plastic Free Cambridge sewed and donated around 30 reusable produce bags to a Cambridge grocery store to replace the recently banned plastic produce bags. The ban was introduced in an attempt to…

We can’t get no satisfaction

Welcome to Waipā: Home of the Sceptics, for we are champions no more. That’s been confirmed in the latest annual Waipā residents’ survey with 54 per cent of the respondents described as sceptics and a…

What residents told Waipā District Council

Read: We can’t get no satisfaction We take a snapshot of comments from the district council’s residents’ survey. The guys who do the parks and gardens do a wonderful job. I am confident in my…

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