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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…

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…

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