10am 5 June 2024 A staff suggestion that Waipā District Council ditch its Age Friendly policy has been thwarted by a former veteran councillor. Kihikihi-based Hazel Barnes successfully argued at today’s Strategic Planning and Policy…
10am 5 June 2024 A staff suggestion that Waipā District Council ditch its Age Friendly policy has been thwarted by a former veteran councillor. Kihikihi-based Hazel Barnes successfully argued at today’s Strategic Planning and Policy…
The latest edition of Waikato Business News is out today, packed full of reading. Chris Gardner visits Hobbiton, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon visits the Ruakaka Superhub, Viv Posselt visits Esther Gathambo at the Made precinct…
Tourists are binge-watching Sir Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogies on smartphones and tablets as they take in the sights of Middle-earth. British backpacker Hannah Flowers, 19, fell in love…
Last weekend’s 2024 Rotary District 9930 Conference in Cambridge has been hailed as a triumph. Comments received by District Governor Bill Robinson and his team praised the conference’s organisation and structure, while international visitors signalled…
Waipā could reduce from 11 to eight the number of elected councillors sitting around the debating table. The move, subject to public feedback is understood to have gathered momentum under mayor Susan O’Regan in a…
Cambridge Community House has benefited to the tune of almost $3000 thanks to a recent rowing fundraiser that also saw a few records tumble. The house team took their places on the rowing machines (ergs)…
Richard Paul Mills might have died at home alone and unclaimed by family, but there was no way the Returned and Services Association (RSA) was going to let him go that way. So, the call…
When it came to local body matters, he was a gamekeeper turned poacher. James Parlane, who died in a two-vehicle crash near Ōhaupō last Friday, was a former lawyer and Waipā district councillor who frequently…
Waipā supermarkets should be banned from selling alcohol, according to Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board member Jill Taylor. Taylor was responding to a proposal during a Local Alcohol Policy workshop last week to either…
Tamahere school students learned firsthand what it was like for their counterparts 140 years ago when they celebrated the school’s birthday earlier this month. The school, now known as Tamahere Model Country School, had a…
