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…
Waipā District Council’s debating chamber became an auditorium for waiata moments after councillors voted to guarantee a seat for iwi. Councillors – most of whom had interspersed their comments with te reo – stood with…
Residents of one of Cambridge’s oldest streets say its care by Waipā District Council is of third world standard and that the street resembles a cross country course. Hall Street is a designated heritage street…
Cambridge man Bill Wilson – long-time Rotarian and crooner with their band The Bruised Brothers – has uncovered an interesting piece of his family’s history. When shifting things around at home, out popped an old passenger ticket…
Patronage at Waipā’s two libraries is on the up with 553 new users signed up in the first quarter of the year taking the number of patrons in Te Awamutu to 15,438 and 20,640 in…
Popping out for a ciggy break in the Cambridge, Te Awamutu, Kihikihi, Ohaupo and Pirongia central business districts will become a thing of the past if Waipā District Council adopts a Smokefree and Vapefree Policy. The draft policy is…
Peter and Berta Welten are as smitten with each other as the day Cupid’s arrow struck in 1952. “It was love at first sight,” said Berta, 85, who met Peter and his family at St Peter’s Catholic Church in Cambridge…
