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Winston’s winning post 

Winston Peters was back in the limelight talking to a supportive audience in Cambridge July 28. The former racing minister was invited to do the honours at the official opening of the Cambridge Jockey Club’s…

A cross to bear 

  It’s been 40 years since the two of us were together in central Hamilton, but the circumstances are completely different. Archbishop Philip Richardson, also Bishop of Waikato and Taranaki, and I walk across Victoria…

Hines opts for pedal power 

Rugby and netball are following football’s lead with a Bike to Footy initiative underway starting this Saturday with rugby at Hautapu’s Memorial Park. The idea behind Bike to Footy came from the Bicycle Revolution Cambridge…

Hitting back at Covid 

The Covid vaccine roll out has reached Waipā this week as the huge task to vaccinate the community ramped up. The Cambridge Community Marae – Nga Hau E Wha – is the latest community COVID-19…

Community vaccination centre opens in Cambridge

The Cambridge Community Marae – Nga Hau E Wha is the latest community COVID-19 vaccination centre to open in the Waikato. Maree Munro, Waikato DHB COVID-19 vaccine programme lead, said at full capacity the site…

We’re going by train now…

The Waikato to Auckland Te Huia train service has carried more than 11,000 passengers in its first three months of operation and there are plans to extend weekday services. It was also proving popular with…

Three Waters carrot for councils 

Waipā is set to receive just under $21 million as part of a $2.5 billion Three Waters package for local governments if it accepts the offer. Under the formula Ōtorohanga will receive just over $10.6…

New liquor licence bid

Cambridge people are being urged to consider whether an application to establish the town’s ninth bottle store in the former Guthrie Bowron premises on Victoria St should proceed. The application for an Off Licence by…

Howling on Victoria St

Nothing says rural discontent better than a howling dog and so when Trev the Huntaway got his moment in the spotlight, he let rip. There he was, head of the parade on the back of a classic Kingswood HQ ute, his master Dean Bayley of…

Business breaker – 60-year-old dairy faces closure

A dairy in Grey Street is losing hundreds of customers and turnover has plunged 60 per cent since Waipā District Council blocked the Cambridge street for its Hamilton Road dual cycleway. As patrons abandon the family business in their droves,…

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