The year 2023 is finishing with more gloomy economic news than good news. But I will start with the good news. Inflation is on the way down again globally and in New Zealand. House prices…
The year 2023 is finishing with more gloomy economic news than good news. But I will start with the good news. Inflation is on the way down again globally and in New Zealand. House prices…
During my time working for the Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program part of my job was gathering satellite images of volcanoes around the world and describing what they show. Looking at thousands of volcanoes during…
Waipā District Council revealed the size of a proposed rate increase last week. The News’ Mary Anne Gill, the only journalist who follows the council’s work, reflects on a process which enabled councillors to formulate…
The year is drawing to an end and this is my last column for 2023. What a year we have had! I want to start again this week with some good news. An elderly local…
Many churches in Cambridge and around the world set up a nativity set at Christmas time. A typical nativity set includes the main characters of the nativity narrative: baby Jesus lying in a manger, Mary…
Emily Dickenson wrote “hope is the thing with feathers which perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all”.’ In our back yard, over the past month, a songbird…
Mandatory is the word we may all not want to hear anymore. And for the last three years we have been stuck with all the rules and what to do wherever we go. This year…
Hope, peace, joy and love are words we hear often at this time of the year. They are the stuff of Christmas cards, written in elegant writing on wrapping paper, emblazoned on Christmas advertising. In…
On behalf of Bridges Church, I would like to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas. There is a real ‘Christmassy’ feeling around the shops of Cambridge, with window displays enticing us to come and purchase…
Similar to Cambridge, Bethlehem was, and still is, a small town with a population of around 25,000 today. It’s not uncommon for farmers to be out working with their animals on the outskirts of Cambridge,…
