A woman recognised as much for her wide smile as for her ‘do anything for anyone’ approach to life has become the Cambridge News Person of the Year for 2020. Julie Epps took the news…
A woman recognised as much for her wide smile as for her ‘do anything for anyone’ approach to life has become the Cambridge News Person of the Year for 2020. Julie Epps took the news…
Captain Shaun Baker Salvation Army Officer For me, Christmas is and always has been that time of year where family can come together and enjoy each other’s company, eat a nice meal together and swap…
Businesses will be the beneficiaries of Spark’s first roll out of 5G in Waipā. Spark opted for Te Awamutu, saying it was the third busiest cell site in New Zealand for mobile data usage –…
Five Cambridge classmates have won a nationwide design competition. Rose Hobbs, Hayley Taylor, Jake Vierboom, Theodore Goodwin and Flynn Jenkins were buzzing with excitement last Thursday after winning $2000 for Leamington School and $200 for…
St Peter’s Catholic Primary is a small school, of under 200 students. But that hasn’t stopped the school from producing head students for three separate Waikato high schools in 2021. Elsie Williams, Gemma Hall and…
Cambridge will become “more vibrant, attractive and safe for children to walk, bike and scooter to school” under a Streets for People initiative unveiled this week. The initiative comes after more than 250 residents and…
If 2020 has been one thing, it has been memorable. The team at the Cambridge News and Te Awamutu gathered this week as we prepared our final editions of 2020 to reflect on the challenges,…
The Age of Reason By Peter Carr A friend suggested my final Opinion of 2020 should be in an upbeat mode. Which suggests that I start at the downbeat end of the scale and work…
No Planet B By Peter Matthews Sitting at my desk, about to pen my last column for the year, I confess I have no clue what I am going to write next. Except that I…
A series of measures have been proposed to significantly improve the quality of the water at Lake Te Koo Utu in Cambridge. Long standing water quality concerns were raised during Waipā District Council’s recent consultation…
