Plastic Bags were pretty much shunned in Cambridge last Saturday, with the town getting behind an initiative to veto the environmental pest for the day. Members of sewing collective Plastic Bag Free Cambridge distributed around…
Plastic Bags were pretty much shunned in Cambridge last Saturday, with the town getting behind an initiative to veto the environmental pest for the day. Members of sewing collective Plastic Bag Free Cambridge distributed around…
I was thinking about mental health this week following the spectacular situation of Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross and reflecting on a conversation I had with a very good friend recently about the issue. She said,…
The Cambridge Repertory Society is commemorating 100 years since the end of World War I with an amateur stage adaptation of the hit BBC comedy, Blackadder Goes Forth. Playing over November 10 – 24 at…
A lengthy report released into the culture and actions of Cycling New Zealand (CNZ) and High-Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ), based at the Avantidrome, was released last Monday. The independent report by former Solicitor General…
Some of New Zealand’s biggest cranes have been operating in town to install the brand new wastewater pipe bridge. Cambridge wastewater from houses north of the Waikato River is piped across to the Waipā District…
Sports charity The Waterboy’s coffee table book More than a Game had its official launch at Paper Plus in Cambridge this month, seeing more than 70 of the organisation’s supporters get together to celebrate. The…
Esteemed Canterbury musician Dwayne Bloomfield was here last weekend for the Cambridge Brass Band’s final full practice before leaving for France. The Cambridge Auxilliary Band, which includes 17 players under age 18 together with some…
John Andersen’s kaleidoscope of tools, thousands of bottles and other items gathered over the past 60 years reflects much more than just six decades of enthusiastic collecting. They are a shapshot of memories held dear…
Mike Pettit, chairman of the Cambridge Community Board, recently shared an update from their latest meeting (abridged). The CCB has asked council to look at putting chain-link fencing on the corner of Duke and Victoria Sts outside…
Poppy Wortman caught up with a team doing their bit to recycle waste recently… It was seeing the amount of waste leaving their building sites that inspired Jono McCullough. “I thought, ‘We really need to…
