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…
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…
Cambridge Community Board members will hit the road to catch up with rural residents – but this time instead of visiting several country halls, they will go to just two. The first will be at…
Lauriston Park Retirement Village and St Peter’s Catholic School held Pink Ribbon fundraisers last week. Lauriston had a brunch with champagne to raise $3000 for the Breast Cancer Foundation’s research.