Waipā District Council has negligence claims totalling $8.5 million contained in an Annual Report newly elected councillors will have to approve in their first weeks in office. The court proceedings against the council are revealed…
Waipā District Council has negligence claims totalling $8.5 million contained in an Annual Report newly elected councillors will have to approve in their first weeks in office. The court proceedings against the council are revealed…
Sitting councillors have had ‘exclusive’ access for eight weeks to a ratepayer satisfaction survey which produced a negative result for Waipā District Council. Two of the four mayoral candidates and a candidate in Pirongia have told…
We asked candidates what change they would drive in Waipā if they were elected and to sum up anything else. Plus, we asked what they thought Waipā council does best and what needs to be…
Local body politics isn’t sexy. It doesn’t have the presence of a Winston Peters, the charisma of a Jacinda Ardern, and local body “political editors” on TV news at six breathlessly reporting on the latest…
An open day at the Cambridge Health and Community Centre will serve the dual purpose of unveiling a new name and vision for the centre and celebrating the 60th anniversary of the maternity home that…
Twelve Cambridge Primary School students have raised $2772 for the Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade. The money will help fit out the brigade’s new Ford F150 support vehicle with a water tank, pump and other “bits…
Three Cambridge men who have given decades of delight to families were presented with Community Service awards last Saturday from the town’s community board. The surprise presentations were made to Dennis Lloyd, known colloquially as…
Jeanette Hobern changed her look dramatically in the blink of an eye last Saturday. In around 15 minutes, the former Girl Guide NZ district governor went from having the longest hair of her life to…
It was a day of mixed emotions when Sir Patrick Hogan visited his former farm Cambridge Stud to attend a luncheon to honour the memory of Queen Elizabeth II. Thirty-two years previously the Queen was…
Urban Miners has a new truck thanks to what is probably the last piece of generosity by Waipā councillors in this term. At its final meeting in Te Awamutu on Tuesday, councillors agreed to gift…
