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Post case off to court

Former Waipā posties Danny and Ian Kennedy are taking a claim for damages against New Zealand Post to the High Court. The couple sold their Te Awamutu home and moved to the South Island in…

Health expo draws the men

They were regaled with an All Black lock’s story of playing Elephant Polo in northern Thailand and fed a diet of sizzled sausages and health tips. More than 60 people attended the inaugural Menz Shed…

Seeds planted for next fest

The return this year of the Rotary Cambridge Garden Festival promises to be a highlight for the 2024-25 tenure of the club’s new president, Gary Smith. The November 10 festival was launched last week at…

Helping our guardian angels

Naomi Carter was 10 when she contacted the Coast Guard to help her father who was scuba diving and having trouble getting back on the family boat. So, it was a no brainer for her…

Lost and found …

The lost Plunket record book that inspired a serendipitous search for its owners has found its family. How the search came to an end is unusual to say the least.  It’s also testimony to the…

Sshhhh … school is out … but that’s news to the district council

The new Cambridge primary school which was to address the town’s burgeoning population and cater for children with special needs is on hold. The Education ministry made the announcement on its website on Friday –…

The two towers 

Battle lines have been drawn in Cambridge – one to see an under-threat water tower remain, the other to hear its 143-year-old church bells ringing again. Mary Anne Gill reports on Protecting their history. A…

What’s in the belfry?

Pigeons and their toxic poo have silenced the six bells in St Andrew’s Anglican Church belfry. One of the four kauri pillars holding up the bell tower at the historic white Cambridge church is rotten…

Need greater elsewhere, says MP

Taupō MP Louise Upston has defended the deferral of Cambridge’s new primary school saying the Education ministry had to prioritise funding based on where need was the greatest. Despite the infrastructure outside the school in…

News … in brief

Nifty shades of Gray In charge of the telephone exchange starting late last century at the Waikato Times she was,  in many ways, the newspaper’s public voice. Now Hamilton’s Operatic Society is planning the ultimate…

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