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‘We chose Steph’

Waipā’s new chief executive was greeted with a powhiri at Karāpiro on Monday, and it was down to business the following day with her first council meeting. Tokoroa born Stephanie O’Sullivan accepted the challenge of…

Media release in the gun

A Cambridge Community Board member has taken a swipe at Waipā District Council for championing debt rather than reducing rates’ inflation. Andrew Myers, who is also a member of the Fonterra co-operative council, was responding…

The mysteries of water

Students from four primary schools – Ōhaupō, Rukuhia, Kaipaki and Tamahere – joined residents of Hamilton’s Bupa Foxbridge Village to find out more about Waikato’s waterways. Using environmental “eDNA” technology with AquaWatch’s Waka monitoring equipment,…

Lions’ Christmas sweetener

The Cambridge Lions Club has launched a particularly tasty fundraising project – the sale of 1kg traditional fruit Christmas cakes. The cakes come sealed in a decorative Christmas box, which project leader Sean Brady said…

The king of Kotahitanga

5 September 11am Kiingi Tuheitia’s youngest child and only daughter was announced as the new monarch of the Kiingitanga on Thursday morning. Te Puhi Ariki Ngawai Hono i te Pō Paki is the eighth Māori…

Stars in their eyes

Steyn Vienings and Mia Vink were reaming of a life on stage after starring in Cambridge Middle School’s production, Seussical Junior, last week. “I can’t believe I’m being interviewed right now,” said Steyn, who played…

Pay as they grow …

Lucy Ryan is confident Hamilton Gardens will continue to be popular with Waipā residents despite the city council’s decision to introduce an entry fee for out of towners. The gardens’ director estimates about a third…

Golden mums a top read

Our online report “Mums are in the same boat” – the story of Cambridge rowers Brooke Francis and Lucy Spoors winning gold at the Paris Olympics – was the best read story on the Cambridge…

Crampton reviews ‘challenges’

Ruth Crampton got knocked down, then got up again, got knocked down and got up again and in the words of Chumbawamba – “you’re never gonna keep me down.” Talking at the Destination Cambridge annual…

A modeller’s dream

Hundreds of people filed through the Cambridge Town Hall from Friday through Sunday for the three-day Model Railway Exhibition staged by the Cambridge-based Greater Waikato Railway Modellers (GWRM). The exhibition featured model railways and related…

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