Eight-year-old Cambridge Primary School student Dylan Philip had a roaring good time at The Amazing Dinosaur Discovery show at Hautapu Rugby Club last Sunday. The event, run by Gordonton-based company Flaming Phoenix Entertainment, opened under…
Eight-year-old Cambridge Primary School student Dylan Philip had a roaring good time at The Amazing Dinosaur Discovery show at Hautapu Rugby Club last Sunday. The event, run by Gordonton-based company Flaming Phoenix Entertainment, opened under…
Community feedback has prompted changes to a proposal to cul-de-sac two streets in Cambridge. The proposal being considered as part of a project to build Cambridge’s first dual cycleway on Hamilton Road, was to cul-de-sac…
After years of operating out of private garage spaces, members of the Greater Waikato Railway Modellers (GWR) have a new home. They moved into the old Leamington Bowling Club building last November, rapidly filling the…
Blind Low Vision NZ is looking for collectors for its annual appeal next month. The search is on to find volunteers to hit the streets and collect money for the Blind Low Vision NZ (formerly…
A parish which has been dormant for decades will be active again on Sunday. The Rātana movement, described as a church and pan-iwi political movement, was founded by Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana in early 20th-century and…
Overnight hallucinations, 250,000 steps and 165 tough kilometres; that, and much more, sums up Allysia Kraakman’s Tarawera Ultramarathon experience earlier this month. Talking through the February 13-14 event over coffee, she reckoned it was a…
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….
