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MP ties knot in the house

Local Taupō MP Louise Upston married partner Hamish Craig on Saturday –  at their Karāpiro home. The couple, who have been together for a decade,…

Racing hub site revealed

Dairy land tagged for mega racing hub Waikato Thoroughbred Racing has secured a conditional deal to buy 150 hectares south of Hamilton, marking the first…

Well hello, dollies …

Members of the Cambridge 60s Up group have enjoyed two decades of companionship, but it is a connection with knitted dolls aimed at comforting those…

Ninety years – 100 celebrate

When the Kairangi Hall committee got together to discuss something special to celebrate the hall’s 90 years, the Kairangi Hall Summer Festival was initiated. Over…

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Gold, bronze… or hi ho silver?

Three Cambridge horse riders at Riding for the Disabled have swapped  helmets and boots for three different sports at the Special Olympics National Summers Games…

Tryathlon event draws 1900

Cambridge turned on a blue-sky Sunday as more than 1900 tamariki descended on St Peter’s School for the Sanitarium Weet-Bix Kids Tryathlon. Children aged 6…

Evans keeps lifting her game

It’s been a big year for Pirongia-based raw bench press specialist Delwyn Evans, 61, travelling around the globe and breaking records on the way. The former Cambridge High School student has been…

Counting down for Christchurch

Special Olympics Te Awamutu recently hosted a swim meet for 100 athletes from 13 North Island clubs in preparation for the Christchurch-based National Summer Games…

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Regional council overhaul

I said repeatedly on the campaign trail that if I did a good job, I would be a one term councillor. I have always been…

Making Christmas ‘happy’…

Contemporary society’s downward spiral into becoming more secularised and humanistic, has triggered lots of inevitable consequences. Notably, fewer people identify nowadays as ‘religious’. A weird…

Scientific conference time

Last week I made the trek up to Auckland for the Geoscience Society of New Zealand annual conference and I’ll share a glimpse into how…

Matters of integrity

We live under and, and are surrounded by, at least three layers of political governance. Not necessarily in the political party sense of those layers…