Waka racing More than 4000 competitors – watched by 8000 spectators – will take part in a total of 380 races over seven days in the waka ama sprint nationals on Lake Karāpiro starting on…
Waka racing More than 4000 competitors – watched by 8000 spectators – will take part in a total of 380 races over seven days in the waka ama sprint nationals on Lake Karāpiro starting on…
Grahame Webber laughs when asked whether Waipā is a better place because of his seven terms on the district council. “Bloody hell, I wasted 21 years if it’s not,” he says. Webber, a former deputy…
Eddie Bradley was so intent on going out with Marie Kane that he would turn the picture around of her boyfriend on the desk so she could not see him. He was 17 and she…
Debate over whether vehicles just under three tonnes should cross the Victoria (High Level) Bridge have reignited after railing was hit last month, taking out the pedestrian lane on the Leamington side.* In November at…
American cruise ship tourists Joy Littleton and Lori Ionnitiu saw the excursions available to them when the Seven Seas Explorer docked in Tauranga on Sunday, and it was the Waipā experience which stood out. “I’m…
Two Waipā residents – Grahame Webber of Cambridge and Sally Davies of Te Awamutu – have been honoured by King Charles III in the New Year’s Honours List released today. Others with Waipā connections are…
A special dedication ceremony was held at the St John Cambridge ambulance station earlier this month for Ambulance 641, which has been gifted to the Manukau station by the estate of Sidney Wilkinson. Sidney Wilkinson…
A second case of Dutch Elm disease has been confirmed in Waipā with the elm tree removed from the south east corner of Victoria Square earlier this month returning a positive result. The 100-year-old tree…
Rev Jennie Savage Vicar, St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Cambridge Many take a journey over Christmas and the summer, to have a holiday, or to visit family or friends. Sometimes they have been long planned, postponed,…
Water safety agencies are calling on people to take care on the Waikato River this summer, particularly around dams and lakes in the Waipā and South Waikato districts. Water Safety New Zealand statistics showed 287…
