Many families around Cambridge adjusted back to school life over the last fortnight as students returned to the classroom for 2018. The two local high schools have reported the highest ever number of students on…
Many families around Cambridge adjusted back to school life over the last fortnight as students returned to the classroom for 2018. The two local high schools have reported the highest ever number of students on…
It’s been a year since David Mackenzie bought Cambridge News, joining the ranks of independent publishers responsible for 80 newspapers across the country. Notoriously media-shy for someone who owns a newspaper, he reluctantly sat down…
It’s been 10 years since Cambridge musician Ben Merito crossed the ditch to pursue his music career in Australia, but the town still has a special place in his heart. “No matter how long…
A permanent commemoration of the liberation of the French town of Le Quesnoy in 1918 is to be placed at the entrance to the town, near St Andrew’s Church on Hamilton Rd. Standing over 5m…
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…
