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New leaders for trust

Waipā Networks Trust has appointed Sarah Matthews as its new chairperson, the first woman to lead the trust. David McLean was chosen as the trust’s deputy chairperson. Matthews, a chartered accountant with Ruapehu District Council,…

Crime, business, transport 

Chamber’s targets outlined If Susan O’Regan was expecting a charmed ride at her first Cambridge Chamber of Commerce ‘Meet the Mayor’ function, it took all of two minutes for chief executive Kelly Bouzaid to disavow…

Cambridge cows star on screen

When award-winning documentary film director Costa Botes asked Andrew Johnstone if he could film him and his cows in Cambridge, Johnstone readily agreed thinking nothing more about it. Two years on, as he looks at…

Were you there in ’72?

Cambridge Resthaven is poised to celebrate its half century later this month, with events planned for November 25 and 26. The commemorations celebrate the opening on November 25, 1972, of the Cambridge Resthaven community-owned rest…

Women in charge

Breaking News: 3 November midday Waipā Networks Trust has appointed Sarah Matthews as its new chairperson, the first woman to lead the trust. David McLean was chosen as the trust’s deputy chairperson. Matthews, a chartered…

Libraries go wireless

New technology which makes taking books out easier for library members is about to be introduced in Waipā. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to identify and track tags attached to objects. They have been…

Sale complete for Hedley

Hedley Edwards jokingly refers to it as a weapon. It’s the Case IH tractor he sold for Giltrap Agrizone Cambridge in August last year to Jeff Weake. But a couple of months later Edwards was…

The story about Storey

Pamela Storey is under no illusion she’s got a tough road ahead of her as Waikato Regional Council chair. “I understand fully how big this role is,” she told The News this week. It was…

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…

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