When Finance Minister Grant Robertson stood to deliver the Budget last week in Parliament, he did so wearing a burgundy tie hand-crafted in Waipā by Claire Nieuwoudt and gifted to him by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Earlier that day, in a Facebook Live seen…
Maungatautari residents are want an end to power problems wreaking havoc with their homes and businesses. They are demanding action from electricity distributor Powerco and met with representatives of the company last week to discuss…
Waipā residents who regularly travel to Waikato Hospital in Hamilton for clinic appointments, work or to visit patients are being urged to have their say about their experiences. Waikato District Health Board (DHB), Waka Kotahi…
Not all ladies of her vintage celebrate their 97th birthday in quite the way Ngaire Fisher did. A few days after a family do marked her May 5 birthday, Ngaire brought the eldest and youngest…
Andrew Fraser’s writing website sports a photo of the man himself, clad in a yellow cycling shirt and lycra shorts, his face barely visible beneath a thick mask of black mud. It hints at a…
A remarkable turnaround in public opinion – and strong submissions from iwi – put councils wanting to introduce Māori wards on the front foot. This is the final week councils up and down the country…
Major decisions made by Wāipa District Council at its Strategic Planning and Policy Committee Long Term Plan hearings: Investigate building a cycleway from Pirongia to Ngā Roto to connect with Te Awamutu. The cost will be about $4 million with $3.7 million from Waka Kotahi….
St Peter’s School’s 2021 senior production, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, ran to packed houses from May 7-13, delighting audiences with a theatrical experience as “phantasmagorical” as the magical car itself. Directed by Hamilton’s David Sidwell,…
Cambridge’s long-awaited swimming pool complex, to be known for the next decade as the Perry Aquatic Centre, was officially opened last Friday. Waipā District Mayor Jim Mylchreest and Brian Perry Charitable Trust chairman Simon Perry…
The mother of a 12-year-old disabled Hautapu schoolboy says they will use the newly-opened Cambridge Pool’s first aid room until the disability changing room is better equipped as a Changing Places facility or similar. Diane…
