Waipā artists associated with Te Awamutu’s Enrich Plus community will showcase their creative talents at an IHC Art Awards gallery exhibition in the town tomorrow (Friday). Their artwork will go on public view from 3.30pm…
Waipā artists associated with Te Awamutu’s Enrich Plus community will showcase their creative talents at an IHC Art Awards gallery exhibition in the town tomorrow (Friday). Their artwork will go on public view from 3.30pm…
The Ministry of Education is supporting Cambridge Middle School to plan ahead for future roll growth, says principal Daryl Gibbs. The school was under a tight squeeze when he arrived in 2018, when students were…
The head of the Waikato Chamber of Commerce wants to spark a debate on the 35-year-old local government boundaries in the province. The last local government reforms introduced a regional tier, male-dominated borough and county…
Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board has accepted Waipā staff’s olive branch to resolve the standoff over changes in the War Memorial Park. Board chair Ange Holt said while members had asked for work to…
Waipā author David Farrell, pictured, has followed up his successful first novel Chameleon with another in the fictional story of the Wilde family. Where the Birds don’t Fly, which came out last week, sees the…
The ongoing cleaning and maintenance of veterans’ graves has been boosted with a donation of supplies from a Cambridge business. The Cambridge RSA and its ‘Remembrance Army’ team received the donation last month from Mitre…
Stories about Waipā council’s proposal to build a third bridge over the Waikato River through long-standing Cambridge suburbs dominated The News’ online presence last month. Website visits were up 28 per cent on February and…
More than 1000 people gathered to honour the 160th anniversary of O-Rākau, a battle that helped define the New Zealand wars. The ceremony on Tuesday began with a 7am dawn service, flag raising and karakia,…
The contribution of Ōtorohanga college students to the teaching of Māori history was acknowledged at this week’s commemorations at O-Rakau, A significant petition, driven by the Waitomo rangatahi a decade ago, was returned as taonga…
Women famously fought alongside men at O-Rākau. Many, if not most of the whānau at Tuesday’s commemorations were remembering lost tūpuna wāhine as well as tāne. Among them were cousins Aroha and Mikaela Tapsell, who…
