Fred Simpson’s first play, centred on the woes of MIQ entrapment may well have set the Cambridge doctor-turned author onto a new path. ‘Stop, Watch’ followed the testy musings of seniors Joan and Henry, locked…
Fred Simpson’s first play, centred on the woes of MIQ entrapment may well have set the Cambridge doctor-turned author onto a new path. ‘Stop, Watch’ followed the testy musings of seniors Joan and Henry, locked…
The national transport agency has started making road safety changes it promised in a letter to Karāpiro School, reported by The News last week. The highway through Karāpiro has been the acene of several fatal…
More than 2000 people attended the two-day Armistice Day Cambridge event at Lake Karāpiro at the weekend which organisers say is on a par with past years. And that’s despite bad weather on the Sunday…
Hamilton Airport says passenger numbers have bounced back to pre-pandemic levels ahead of the first post-pandemic summer. Numbers varied greatly during the pandemic and the April-June 2021 quarter, when international borders were closed, saw a…
Roto-o-Rangi School teacher Pam Furze is retiring – reluctantly. After almost 50 years in the education sector, and 20 years at the school as a teacher and sports leader, Pam is working up to her…
The French and New Zealand flags flew at half mast next to the Fred Graham sculpture in Lake Te Koo Utu Domain last week to mark 104 years since New Zealand soldiers liberated the northern…
The late withdrawal of Cambridge Brass Band musical director Rob Hocking with Covid and inclement weather meant attendance for the annual free Armistice Salute Concert on Sunday, in front of the Victoria Park cricket pavilion,…
Do not expect to see any political in-fighting on the Cambridge Community Board while Jo Davies-Colley is chair. It is an environment she wants nothing to do with and she thinks voters and mayor Susan…
A robotic kayak invented by Waipā engineer Jeffrey To is on course to capture what’s going on in Waikato’s lakes. Ngā Roto near Te Awamutu has koi carp aplenty, some sunken objects including a 55m…
Six Waipā residents have put in 15 per cent of the 434 official information requests to the council in the last year, taking up more than eight weeks’ staff time. The most prolific requester, with…
