Like many organisations partially reliant on a charitable hand, Cambridge’s Achievement House has felt the effects of Covid. The disability enterprise re-opened this week after a stop-start year which left its workers feeling anxious and confused. Events…
There could be increased opportunities to light up the Cambridge Town Hall and the Clock Tower for events outside of the traditional commemoration days. Cambridge Community Board members Elise Badger and Alana Mackay will work…
A Waipā district councillor earned himself a strong rebuke from mayor Jim Mylchreest last week for lobbying for an organisation the Cambridge representative had declared a conflict of interest with. Philip Coles is a member…
The Covid lockdown memories of a group of Year Nine students at Cambridge High School are now frozen in time and what they wrote and produced about the pandemic proved quite an eye opener for…
Vandalism continues to be a major issue at Waipā facilities throughout the district. Vandals hit sites hard from July at Kāniwhaniwha Reserve, Pukemako and Bulmer’s Landing, Community Services acting manager Brad Ward told the Strategic Planning and Policy committee meeting this…
A collaborate approach between three Waikato councils has been established to protect the country’s only native land mammals. Pekapeka-tou-roa was a controversial, but clear winner of the 2021 New Zealand bird of the year and, are found throughout…
Time has been standing still in Cambridge and Kihikihi – but not for much longer. Waipā District Council stopped winding Cambridge’s iconic clock when the town went into lockdown, and it stalled at 6.09 ever since. Staff stopped winding…
Destination Cambridge CEO Miff Macdiarmid is determined not to let the grinch steal Christmas despite the Covid pandemic putting a stop to several major seasonal events. Down the gurgler is the annual Christmas Parade and the Christmas Rowing…
Tivoli’s silver screens are now accompanied by perspex screens. Shane Jarrett is following the lead of a fellow theatre owner by partitioning the twin seats in his three Cambridge cinemas. “It won’t stop Covid but I hope it will…
Editor, writer and manuscript consultant Stephen Stratford was so well known in the Cambridge cafés he frequented that before he had sat down, his favourite short black coffee had already been delivered to the table….
