Paul van der Hoek is in a job he loves looking after Waipā District Council’s playground assets. And that’s despite the fact his duties include cleaning up vomit, graffiti and removing rubbish. Van der Hoek,…
Paul van der Hoek is in a job he loves looking after Waipā District Council’s playground assets. And that’s despite the fact his duties include cleaning up vomit, graffiti and removing rubbish. Van der Hoek,…
It has been a mixed week at Lake Te Koo Utu with work on the senior playground ahead of schedule while there is a delay in the raingardens development, due to start this week. Waipā…
If you knew Kay Connolly when she was a sixth form student at Cambridge High SchooI in 1966, then school library manager Glenys Bichan wants to hear from you. Kay designed a new school coat…
Those who gathered around the blue and yellow lit Cambridge Town Hall on Friday did so for “one simple reason,” Cambridge High School head girl Anna Smith says. “[We gathered] to show our support to…
Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest has lashed out again at the Government for its “contempt” of local government through its proposed reforms. And he and fellow Te Awamutu representative Lou Brown are scathing of Local Government…
As the lunch bell rings at Cambridge Middle School, students surge from their classrooms, sprinting towards the cricket pitch in the centre of the playing field. The long concrete strip has been converted to a…
Expect to see jet planes over Waipā skies. Waikato Regional Airport Ltd, which operates Hamilton Airport on behalf of five local authorities including Waipā district, has revealed plans to develop a new corporate jet precinct…
Five Waipā staffers laid off because they refused to have Covid vaccinations have been offered their jobs back. Council chief executive Gary Dyet has told The News “in light of the changing circumstances” and new…
Waipā’s Covid bounce back has begun with domestic tourism credit card spending and visitor night stays above the New Zealand average and the best in the Waikato. Figures released by Hamilton and Waikato Tourism this…
Cambridge dance teacher Courtney Richmond has been awarded one of two Waikato University Hillary medals. The 24-year-old is head of the dance department at Ignite Arts Academy. Academy director Maxine Nelson said Courtney was “an…
