Footloose Shoes owner Debbie Simes was walking on air yesterday morning as she and many other Cambridge retailers opened their doors to customers for the first time in 26 days. “There’s just a feeling of…
Footloose Shoes owner Debbie Simes was walking on air yesterday morning as she and many other Cambridge retailers opened their doors to customers for the first time in 26 days. “There’s just a feeling of…
A new housing policy which allows Waipā towns to have three homes of up to three storeys high built without a resource consent is a recipe for creating slum situations, says mayor Jim Mylchreest. It…
Work has begun on a $150 million all-purpose medical facility in Cambridge’s northern suburbs. The Health Hub will establish “medical independence” for Cambridge, developers behind the facility claim. It will contain a medical centre, day-stay…
Benjamin Wilson Ebbett Toyota is launching their Community Moover, a free to use Toyota HiAce, for community groups and charities. “We want to have our Ebbett Toyota dealerships enabling them to do great things” said Ebbett Toyota…
Te Awa River path users between Cambridge Gaslight Theatre and the velodrome can finally snatch a glimpse of the next stage of the shared path. Parts of the path below the velodrome have been dug…
The regional council believes rook numbers have fallen from about 50 to 40 in the region over the past year. Introduced from Britain to control insects more than 150 years ago, the bird soon wore…
New Zealand’s milk flush – when cows produce and dairy factories process more milk than any other day of the year – is sometime this week. Waipā’s two Fonterra dairy factories in Cambridge at Hautapu and in…
Cambridge’s charity organisation Jumble Around has recorded one of its most successful years ever and has distributed over $154,000 to mostly local non-profit groups and organisations. The Leamington-based outlet runs its annual funding round to mid-September,…
Covid-19 has delayed Ollie the cockatiel’s epic hike down the length of New Zealand but while the chips are down, he’s been boosting his public profile by downing chips. The plucky 20-month-old Cambridge bird, who…
Updated with Waikato DHB comments received after we went to press (see at end): A Waipā district councillor says she and other councillors were told to keep quiet for more than a day when Covid…
