The Cambridge Central Bowling Club will be attempting to add yet another Guinness World Record (GWR) to their name this weekend, this time for the longest singles endurance lawn bowls marathon. Club members Alistair Carter…
The Cambridge Central Bowling Club will be attempting to add yet another Guinness World Record (GWR) to their name this weekend, this time for the longest singles endurance lawn bowls marathon. Club members Alistair Carter…
The Auckland Blues training squad hit town last Monday, staying at the recently-opened Podium Lodge on Peake Rd. With 54 players and 16 support staff, the lodge was buzzing this week as the rugby players…
Organiser of Alfresco Bites, Taryn ‘Taz’ Lyford has a passion for Cambridge and a clear idea of what she would like to bring to the town, but she needs a bit of help to continue…
Rosanne Birch, who placed a message in the classified section of Cambridge News recently, is delighted to report that she found her friend, Cambridge local Judy Tod. Judy had once lived near Rosanne, a Nelson…
An elite rower-turned trainer has shifted the way she motivates others, moving from the podium to the gym as a local trainer, and now with a beautiful baby in tow. Erin Monique O’Brien, known locally…
Paul Seideman was a Czech teenager in 1941 when he first suffered the horrors of the Auschwitz death camp, and later other concentration camps, during World War 2. Now approaching 90, he lives quietly at…
In a stark contrast to October’s soggy event, the sun shone down on St Andrew’s twice-yearly craft fair last Monday. A fixture of the Cambridge calendar since 1996, the fair is held each Labour Day…
The volunteer fire brigade was called out to a house fire on Robinson St just after 12.30am last Wednesday, arriving to find a Housing New Zealand house ablaze. Fortunately, the house was empty at the…
The Cambridge Lions received some remarkable news last week – the group is currently the largest Lions club in the country. The local good sorts say it’s because of the Cambridge community that they’re able…
Heard the sound of drums in town recently? They may have sounded like bongos, but in fact it was a Cajón that could be heard throughout the CBD – a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from…
