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New council sworn in

The next three years will bring economic challenges and once in a lifetime legislative reform which by its very nature will bring uncertainty, debate and trials, says Waipā’s first female mayor Susan O’Regan. Speaking at…

School greets response

Karāpiro School principal Tina-Maree Thatcher  believes Waka Kotahi has listened to concerns spelled out in a 1000-plus word letter. In June she told the agency the school, on the intersection of State Highway 1 and…

Sister city celebrated

Story boards telling the story of Cambridge’s French connection will stay up until February. The signboards, made for the commemoration of 100 years since the liberation of Le Quesnoy in 1918, were originally used in…

For whom the bell tolls …..

“You need to walk into the tower and have a feeling that you are walking into magic.” That, says Susan Hague is how you will know if you are a bell ringer. The Cambridge bell…

Interest high in garden festival

Tickets for this year’s Rotary Garden Festival are flying out the door. Rotarian and event organiser Carey Church said two-thirds of available tickets for the November 20 event have already gone. The annual garden festival…

A grand day had by all

At 1.10pm on Friday 21, Daniel Vivian leads his grandmother Marion Vivian through his classroom to a refreshments table, where tea, coffee, Milo and cartons of tropical punch are arranged beside a vase of pink…

Cruisers celebrate

They are the country’s newest rock ‘n’ roll club – and they are dancing up a storm. Cambridge Cruisers celebrated successes for all its travelling members at the New Zealand  rock n roll dance championships…

Where are the police when you need them? 

The new Cambridge police station has been open nearly two months but visitors to the town would have had trouble finding it if they had followed the signs. They pointed to the old station in…

We’re Waikato’s ‘Ponsonby’ 

Destination Cambridge’s new chair Martin Buglass is seeking a more collaborative approach to enticing visitors to stay longer in a town he describes as the jewel of Waipā. He wants key entities to work more…

Ian loves a crowd  

Ian Dunn has presided over more St Andrew’s craft fairs than the veteran verger is prepared to admit. But he is in no doubt that Labour Day Monday’s event – the first in two years…

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