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News contributions: At Good Local Media we can’t always be at your event or assign a reporter to do interviews – but you can still…

Three days – and counting

Hamilton is sending the clear message that important decisions like local government reform should not be rushed, after council decided not to submit a Head…

Dealing with chronic illness

Complex Chronic Illness Support hope to provide support and lend an ear to those suffering. Read more

Stung into action

A Cambridge schoolgirl has been acknowledged  after her quick thinking saved her mum from a life-threatening allergic reaction. Lexi Turner Ballantyne, 12, so impressed the…

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Worlds for Cambridge trio

Cambridge trio Bronwen Rees-Jones, Boh Ritchie and Madeleine Waddell competed at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Oregon, USA last week. They were part of…

They won’t meet again…

Waipā Home of Champions and Waikato said farewell to greyhound racing last Thursday at Cambridge Raceway. The closure follows a 20-month wind down period after…

Luke’s legacy for Cambridge

Cambridge football prodigy – and newly minted Portsmouth winger –  Luke Brooke-Smith is rewarding his former club’s training programme. The 18-year-old who made his senior…

On their medals

Athletes with strong links to Waipā and northern King Country picked up 11 of the 36 medals won by New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games…

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What do you see?

Lately the beauty of New Zealand’s Otago Lakes District has been presented to me via photos sent from one of my daughters, who shifted to…

Let’s get it right

New Zealand does not have a good track record in restructuring. The power reforms of the 1990s did not deliver on their stated intention of…

The final countdown

By the time the next edition of this newspaper hits the streets Waipa District Council will have ‘come clean’ on their preferred partners in the…

Looking beyond numbers

The latest Waipā Residents’ Survey provides a useful snapshot of how people feel about life in our district. It’s what sits behind the numbers that…