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Community patrol is a lifesaver

Cambridge Community Patrol coordinator Neil Bridgland has more than one story of when his volunteers took lifesaving action. Like the time, a couple of months ago, when a husband-and-wife on late night patrol saw a…

Donna – and a mitre at 10

The death of Catholic bishop Denis Browne earlier this month has brought back memories of a special day for Donna McHugh (nee Thurston). It was nearly 25 years ago that McHugh, then only 10 and…

This bird has flown …..

A mural in Leamington Domain which was to have been safe from vandals and taggers has instead become a victim of Mother Nature or global warming in just over two years. The piece of art…

Community: ‘Save our building’

A building which once hosted hundreds of Karāpiro dam workers and their families for tennis parties and the like, faces an uncertain future despite the community saying they want to retain it. If walls could…

‘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…

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