Champions at The Meteor
Winners of the senior title were from left Aspin Gooch, Summer de Gouviea-Rennie, Vinne Proebstel and Sylvie Keightley.
Cambridge High School’s junior and senior Theatresports teams won the Waikato championship at The Meteor in Hamilton on Monday.
The junior team of Adam Thorne, Dylan Vink, Emogen Renshaw and Kate Leys, came in as the underdogs but left the winners.
The senior team of Sylvie Keightley, Vinnie Proebstel, Summer De Gouviea Rennie and Aspen Gooch drew for first with last year’s champions, Hamilton Boys’ High.
The success adds to the Drama department’s success at the school. Earlier this year students won two trophies in the Shakespeare Festival, bringing home the only two Waikato trophies and won national awards for outstanding performances in Wellington.
Cambridge High knocked out well established theatre sport champion schools – St John’s College and Hillcrest High – to win.
Adam Thorne, Dylan Vink, Emogen Renshaw, and Kate Leys
In the news
Our online story announcing the giant quarry on the southern outskirts of Cambridge had secured resource consent to proceed topped the views on cambridgenews.nz last month.
The front page revelation that Lake Te Koo Utu’s future was bleak came in at runner up in a record-breaking month for our website.
The News in Brief which led with news Five Stags of Leamington had secured its liquor licence was third followed by Transport minister Chris Bishop’s rejection of the on off ramps at the end of Tīrau Rd.
Rounding out the top five was Karāpiro reunited – the completion of the hydro project and the opening of the dam road.
We will be monitoring views and hits during the election campaign and there is already a front runner among the mayoral candidates.
Hits to the website are 50 per cent up on July this year and 82 per cent up on August last year.
Our website stories are not behind those irritating pay walls – you can read them in full in between issues of the newspaper.
Eddie dies
Eddie and Marie Bradley
Eddie Bradley, who featured in The News with wife Marie on their 70th wedding anniversary in January, has died aged 90. Marie, 91, died in May. The couple met in Belfast, Northern Ireland as teenagers, married and had six children, three of them born in Cambridge after the family emigrated.
Kapa haka delight
Schools from around Cambridge took part in the annual kapa haka festival at the Sir Don Rowlands Centre in Karāpiro last week.
Karapiro School
St Peter’s Catholic
Te Miro
Cambridge East Primary School
Business News out
Waikato Business News September 2025
The September issue of Waikato Business News is out this week and features nine candidates standing for mayor in Waipā, Hamilton and Waikato. It also features an interview with former All Black Sam Cane and a Cambridge veterinarian turned theatrical costume and set designer. Sister publication Bay of Plenty Business News looks at the decision to scrap NCEA. More online and free at goodlocal.nz
Rep rugby returns
The Waikato women’s rugby team will play its Farah Palmer Cup match against Manawatu at Cambridge Memorial Park next week instead of the usual Waikato Stadium venue making the match accessible to the Waipā community for a gold coin donation.
New lake plan
Lake Ngā Roto retains its name in a new plan approved by councillors for restoring it. Wairoto was identified by Apakura Rūnanga Trust as its traditional name in the plan but it has not been agreed with Te Rūnanganui-o-Ngāti Hikairo.
Hall open day
Town Hall general manager Simon Brew on the steps of the Victorian Room.
Cambridge Town Hall is having a community open day on Saturday to highlight its newly renovated rooms.
Outlook for Thursday
Maraeroa Te Kanawa, Zita Harpur, Ronan Hinchliffe, Frances Bowmar and Ryan Tonks make up Te Awamutu Intermediate School band Thursday’s Cancelled – and they have just completed a double. Thursday’s Cancelled stared at last week’s Rockshop Bandquest for the Waikato region – having already won the Band Slam regional competition last month.
A Waipā band has continued a successful year by starring at last week’s Rockshop Bandquest for the Waikato region.
Te Awamutu Intermediate’s Thursday’s Cancelled earlier won the Band Slam regional competition in August.
Honey launch
The University of Waikato’s Honey Research Unit has been relaunched, building on over 40 years of mānuka honey science. Current projects include PhD student Amber Bell’s Marsden-funded work on how heavy metals affect bee brains and colonies
