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Bumper turnout for creative fibre

It’s another thumbs up for all at this month’s Cambridge Creative Fibre Exhibition and Fibre Fair held in the Cambridge Town Hall. More than 400 people came through the doors on the only Fibre and…

New ute for tree trust

It might have already racked up the kilometres and seen its fair share of dirty gardening business, but Cambridge Tree Trust is happy with its new ‘old’ ute. The 2011 Mitsubishi Triton will go quickly…

Rotary rocks the hall

A specially adapted performance of ‘Something Tells Me You’re in for Something Good’ by Cambridge Rotary’s own band, The Bruised Brothers knocked the socks off hundreds of Rotarians gathered in Cambridge last weekend. The social…

Burning ring of chilli fire

It’s a fine line between pleasure and pain, as the Divinyls’ song goes, but it’s a line Jim Thomassen gets a kick out of walking. Jim, 55, is a competitive chilli eater who will take…

Tower’s fate uncertain

The bricks will stay but the neglected metal tank and outdoor walkway framing could go. That seems to be the fate of Cambridge’s historic Water Tower despite 62 per cent of the 223 submitters to…

Income up, more needed

Cambridge Town Hall is about to have its most successful income year in a decade, but it needs a seven figure injection of funds to preserve and activate it further. In a presentation to Waipā…

Anchor’s Away

Anchor, an iconic global brand with century-old links to Cambridge, is up for sale. It is expected to fetch millions of dollars and boost dairy giant Fonterra and its suppliers’ bottom line by millions of…

At last, a place of their own

Menzshed in Cambridge finally has a new home, but members are going to spend the first few months of their tenancy doing it up. The 122-year-old Leamington Dairy Factory in Carlyle Street is a shadow…

News ….. in brief

i-Site grants Te Awamutu and Cambridge i-Sites have been given grants of $30,000 each by Waipā District Council in the 2024-2025 financial year to help recover from the loss of the council’s funding. The decision…

Waipa motorcyclist dies in crash

Police have named the motorbike rider who died following a crash on Te Poi Road near Matamata on Friday. She was 51-year-old Donna Gaye McCauley from Waipa. Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are…

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