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St Peter’s top students

Gabrielle Hill was named National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) dux and performing arts dux of St Peter’s Cambridge. The 17-year-old has lived in Cambridge…

Every little bite counts

Far from being the stuff of nightmares, the leeches being bred in the Waikato on New Zealand’s only leech farm are highly valued medical miracles….

National win for jump jammers

Pirongia School’s stompingly-good jump jammers  won big at this month’s Jump Jam Nationals in Tauranga. Soon after winning the Year 7-8 Strictly Open division, the…

Waipā looks flash

Riverlea Theatre has continued to draw on Waipā talent with its latest production – Flashdance – which opens a three week season on Saturday. Alex…

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Bowlers ride to the rescue

Bowlers have raised $1100 for Te Awamutu’s Riding for the Disabled organisation. Kihikihi Bowling Club’s latest tournament was a departure from the norm, in that…

From golf … to golf

Retiring Cambridge Golf Club greenkeeper Kevin Brown loves playing golf and riding his motorcycle. When he gives up caring for the fairways and greens of…

Alan Hayward – 70 not out

When Cambridge Antiques’ all-rounder Alan Hayward opened the bowling for his side in club cricket on Sunday he was, at 70, possibly the oldest player…

BMXers to the fore

Cambridge has its fair share of Olympic champions – and seven-year-old Goodwood School student Archer Griffin might just be one in the making. Archer, who…

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The city in a volcano

In Aotearoa we have an incredible array of cities by the ocean, near lakes or mountains, and in some cases, on or in volcanoes. Did…

We say …. The Courier: another last post

In the 1970s at the South Waikato News in Tokoroa, Brian Burmester was a leading light in the New Zealand Community Newspaper Association of which…

Increasing competition

A newspaper article last week said Finance Minister Nicola Willis was looking closely at a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development…

Making sense of life

Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Our ‘five senses’ comprise such a wonderful gift equipping our nervous system with information to process, enabling us to…