When the call to Susan O’Regan came at 1.30pm on Saturday from Waipā chief executive Garry Dyet that she had been elected mayor, her first reaction was relief. Read: Facing Up Read: Susan O’Regan elected…
When the call to Susan O’Regan came at 1.30pm on Saturday from Waipā chief executive Garry Dyet that she had been elected mayor, her first reaction was relief. Read: Facing Up Read: Susan O’Regan elected…
Susan O’Regan thought she knew what was in the Waipā mayor’s office – after all she has been in there many times in the past few years catching up with Jim Mylchreest. But when she…
Part of the riverbank between Fergusson (Low Level) Bridge and Achilles Avenue in Cambridge has slipped into the Waikato River. While Waipā staff say the slip is “not significant” compared to other slips on the…
The last person to vote in Cambridge was Pip Roderick who arrived very flustered just after 11.55am. “I leapt out of the shower and into the car and came in from Karāpiro,” she said. “I…
Maija Vance is used to the calls she gets from the council asking about the dead horse on her Leamington property. She gets these calls when people ring the council about her horse, Slim Shady,…
Barbara Holmes was just arriving home in Hamilton when she got a call from her son, Brad, from Brisbane. A post from the Cambridge Grapevine about her Victoria Street store Holmes and Co., had made…
Ken Sheldrick remembers days when people would bury their old plates and crockery to dispose of them. Then antique collecting became popular. “We were the first recyclers,” the octogenarian, who has owned Colonial Heritage Antiques…
In mid 2020 I got a Facebook friend request from veteran Kiwi filmmaker Costa Botes. Why is he friending me I wondered? Later after a screening at the 2022 NZ International Film Festival, Costa explained…
John Wood will join the Te Awamutu Community Board after provisional votes saw him oust provisional member Norris Hall today. Special votes are yet to come. Wood, a semi-retired drainlayer/plumber, has links with Pirongia having…
Susan O’Regan has beaten incumbent Jim Mylchreest to be the new Waipā mayor. The 50-year-old Kakepuku farmer becomes the district’s first female mayor and only the fifth since the district’s establishment in 1989. It was…
