The appointment of four iwi representatives – Te Kanohi – to enable one to have voting rights on each of Waipā District Council’s standing committees – appears to be working well. A poll of councillors…
The appointment of four iwi representatives – Te Kanohi – to enable one to have voting rights on each of Waipā District Council’s standing committees – appears to be working well. A poll of councillors…
Janie Taylor still remembers her first day at Te Miro School in the 1970s. “We had a really stripy carpet – that’s such a vivid memory because I guess we spent a lot of time…
Eradication of pests at a Waipā lake has been so successful a new problem has arisen – in the form of pest birds. Hundreds of thousands of starlings and sparrows roost in the pest fenced…
An audience of over 300 gathered on Cambridge’s Village Square on a balmy Sunday afternoon to enjoy the town’s first Proms Concert. And patrons can expect it to become a regular on the Waipā calendar….
Set in three leafy hectares in the tranquil Waikato countryside, Ōhaupō TreeChurch and Gardens is a far cry from the fast-paced corporate world Bev and Chris Gatenby once inhabited. But after taking stock of…
Public input is being sought over a proposed $8 billion investment in Waikato’s land transport system. The Regional Transport Committee plan sets out how the region’s land transport system will be developed over the next…
At an impressive 105-years-old, Maurice ‘Maurie’ Evans is the living embodiment of the glass-half-full approach to life. He has faced love and loss through the years, struggled with the aftermath of spending four years on…
A movie night being held at Cambridge’s Tivoli Theatre on Tuesday March 2 will help the four Cambridge businesswomen raise funds for Oxfam. Booking details and tickets for the movie, ‘Love, Weddings and Other Disasters’,…
The next phase of Predator-Free Mystery Creek has been launched by the New Zealand National Fieldays Society (NZNFS). The information evening last week was designed to kickstart a wider movement to extend predator control into…
Cambridge’s Fred Simpson – family doctor, wordsmith and a man with his roots deeply embedded in Africa – will launch his second novel ‘The Sunflower and the Sparrow’ at PaperPlus Cambridge from 5.30pm on Thursday…