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Cranes over Cambridge

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…

More than a Game launched

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…

Band’s departure date nearly here

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…

Collector’s window on days gone by

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…

Community Board working to install fencing

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…

Teaming up to fight waste

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…

Eel industry could face shortage

The new eel fishing year kicked off on October 1, with catch limit changes coming into effect following a public consultation in July. The review of North Island eel sustainability by Fisheries New Zealand asked…

Labour Day fair will be biggest yet

The biannual St Andrew’s Giant Craft & Collectable Fair coming up this Labour Day is set to be the biggest yet, with founder and organiser Ian Dunn confirming a total of 114 stalls this year….

Model train-fest in Tirau

Model train lovers are in for a treat this Labour Weekend. The Greater Waikato Railway Modellers, in association with Castle Pamela and Tirau Primary School, is staging a model railway exhibition in the Castle’s great…

Local apprentice the best

Cambridge hairdressing apprentice Courtney Hale has just been named as one of the New Zealand Hair and Beauty Industry Training Organisation’s apprentices of the year, one of just four in the country. Courtney, a Year…

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