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Meet Dione’s pet projects

If there is a female version of Doctor Dolittle, then Cambridge 14-year-old Dione Bax would easily fit the bill. Stray animals and birds make a bee-line for her mother Kylie’s boutique stud farm in Hautapu…

Running into Omicron

Waipā residents wasted little time on Sunday responding to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s announcement the country was moving into Covid red. Queues at vaccination centres and supermarkets started within minutes of the 11am announcement, leaked…

Pumping iron for the planet  

After bringing a new kind of ice cream to Cambridge in 2017, entrepreneur turned personal trainer Tom Montgomerie has cooked up another cool idea. The former St Peter’s School student now wants to raise $5000…

Repelling the Wallabies

Australian marsupials introduced in acts of extraordinary folly are headlined by the brushtail possum. After they were released in 1837 to create a fur trade, their numbers peaked at around 70 million. They have fallen…

Talking Piarere

Waka Kotahi staff will  front up to shoppers in Cambridge next Tuesday to discuss the proposed solution to one of the region’s biggest black spots. The intersection of State Highway 1 and 29 at Piarere is…

Riders raise warnings over cycleway

A car with an out-of-town driver leaving one of Cambridge’s motels allegedly hit a cyclist riding along the Hamilton Road Cycleway on Tuesday. Details of the incident appeared on social media posts with the cyclist…

What’s in a building’s name?

New Zealand-born cycling giant and now Swiss-owned cycling manufacturer Avanti will continue getting free publicity in Waipā, even though its 10-year naming rights deal with the Cambridge Velodrome has ended. The National Cycling Centre of…

Junior vaccinations start

Ethan Twaddle was one of 1220 Waikato tamariki vaccinated against Covid-19 with the child version of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday. The nine-year-old Cambridge Primary School student was a little apprehensive but quickly recovered to…

The millionaires’ club

Cambridge has joined the million-dollar housing club and outside of six suburbs in Hamilton, has the highest median house value in the Waikato. CoreLogic’s Mapping the Market Report released this week showed the median house…

Our own Dads’ Army

By Luke East Eight decades ago Cambridge’s very own Home Guard was protecting their patch from Nazi tyranny. The Cambridge Home Guard was formed in July 1940, following the example of the 1.5 million Brits…

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