It was just what the community needed – a Christmas Parade with lots of happy, smiling faces, despite the steady rain. Mary Anne Gill was there with her camera and wrote about the day. Pop…
It was just what the community needed – a Christmas Parade with lots of happy, smiling faces, despite the steady rain. Mary Anne Gill was there with her camera and wrote about the day. Pop…
An historically significant Karāpiro building has been given a new lease of life by a Waipā sporting family. Olympic rower and rowing coach Mike Rodger, wife Robin Aylett, son Shem Rodger – a former professional…
Barbara Fisher keeps her emotions in check as she talks about the thousands of dollars she and fellow Lyceum House members gave away last month. It is the legacy from a group of women who…
The Cambridge Christmas Parade went ahead today at 2pm with steady rain which eased off during the event giving the hundreds of people who packed the streets the opportunity to see all 51 floats, the…
Through Antanas Procuta’s well-trained eyes, Cambridge is an architectural masterpiece. Speaking at the Cambridge Historical Society’s annual meeting last week on The Pattern of Cambridge: An Architectural and Urban Design Perspective, Procuta acknowledged the town’s…
Cyber stars Waipā District Council has been recognised for its outstanding cybersecurity efforts, taking out the ‘Best in Cyber Security’ award at the Association of Local Government Information Management annual awards last week. The award…
Waikato-Tainui executive Glenda Taituha-Toka, originally from Piopio is a finalist in the Young Executive of the Year category of the Deloitte Top 200 Awards. The winners will be announced on December 5. The Rahui-Pōkeka (Huntly)…
Forming a multi council-controlled organisation for water services is the first step to creating a unitary authority in the Waikato. That’s the view of Waipā District Council Cambridge Ward member Mike Pettit who shared his…
Waipā District Council is drafting a submission against the building of the Paewira waste to energy plant in Racecourse Road in Te Awamutu. Councillors who debated the plan last week said they believed the wrong…
Almost everything about Sunday’s book launch at Ōhaupō School of Valerie Millington’s ‘Ellen of Denniston’ was intended to deliver a sense of time and place. And deliver it did, in spades. The hall, creaking with…
