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Challenge for i-Site

Cambridge’s i-Site faces an uncertain future with the resignation of its chief executive, the loss of a major income stream and indecision about future council funding. Michelle ‘Miff’ Macdiarmid has resigned from Destination Cambridge, the…

Te Kanohi appointments on hold

Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan has put the appointment of mana whenua representatives on four council committees on hold. She made the call today following the resignation last week of Waipā Maori ward councillor Takena Stirling….

Councillor suspended from legal practice on an interim basis

A lawyer suspended after apparently losing his moral compass is Takena Stirling, Waipā’s first Māori ward councillor. The Law Society posted details of the suspension on its website yesterday (Thursday 16 March). That caught Waipā…

Audit rebuke for council

Audit New Zealand has rapped Waipā District Council over the knuckles in its annual Management Report for approving expenses to the chief executive and mayor without the proper authority. Update Friday March 17: Some sentences…

Showing how it’s done

Forty per cent of the people who attend an Owl Farm public open day at St Peter’s School in Cambridge have never been on a dairy farm in their lives. And Jo Sheridan revels in…

Ethical investing on the rise

A talk delivered in Cambridge last week inadvertently championed ‘the teacher effect’ as much as it did its central topic of ethical investing. Carey Church generated much interest with her address to the March U3A…

Waste generated equates to a ‘polar bear’ per person

Waipā residents generate around 500kg of waste each per year, about the weight of a mid-sized polar bear. But at least half of that shouldn’t end up in landfill at all and mayor Susan O’Regan…

Boards agree to awa restoration funding

  The Boards of Watercare and the Waikato River Authority have agreed on how restoration funding from Watercare will be used to protect the awa over the next 20 years. This funding arises from a…

Autumn blues ahead

Canadian performers Big Johnny Blue and Tina Turley are bringing their unmistakeable ‘bluesy music with a rock n’ roll edge’ to Cambridge for the Cambridge Autumn Festival later this month. They gave The News a…

Council’s feedback frenzy

Waipā’s spatial plan engagement programme has become a victim of its own success and  the team behind it is under pressure to provide individual presentations before feedback closes in 11 days. Strategy manager Kirsty Downey…

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