Festival all go

Festival all go

Two key events on Cambridge’s 2023 calendar will share common ground this month. Both the Great Kiwi Summer Festival, an inaugural event three years in the making which is being called “New Zealand’s biggest celebration…

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A new festival launched to fund a mental health charity could become an annual fixture in Cambridge. We speak exclusively in the Waikato Business News, out this week, to the man whose vision it is…

Protesters at the greyhounds

A teenage politician was at the forefront of a small protest against greyhound racing at Cambridge Raceway last week. Animal Justice Party’s Hamilton East candidate Lily Carrington – who turned 18 just before this year’s…

Historic home under the hammer

A Cambridge property steeped in history, with a capital value of $17.8 million, could change hands for the first time in more than a century. Dingley Dell, a 165ha Maungatautari dairy farm will be auctioned…

Great escape

A determined kākāpō – moved from the South Island to Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari last month – made a daring escape last week. Tracing data shows four-year-old Tautahi used a downed tree to boost himself over…

Store counts on St Peter’s

Some old timber will be put to new use thanks to the hands-on dedication of some St Peter’s Cambridge staff and technology students. Rimu not needed at the Masonic Hotel as it undergoes a $4…

Brigitte’s diving is dynamic

Most sports people aspire to reach new heights. For Cambridge’s Brigitte Nathansen it’s the complete opposite – she is training with the target of plumbing new depths. Nathansen made a splash at her first freediving…

Board hands out $22k in grants

The Cambridge Community Board allocated $22,000 from the first round of its discretionary funding. The board has $52,062.67 to distribute this financial year – and received 28 applications totalling $105,000. The largest grants were $5000…

Put your sweet lips a little closer…

Teething issues experienced during Cambridge Community Board’s first meeting to be live streamed will be resolved, its chair says. The board livestreamed its September meeting, allowing viewers to tune in to the Kaipaki Room of…

Aussie test for disc ‘jockey’

Cambridge’s Liam Weston wants to see those Aussies in a spin. The 17-year-old headed to Sydney yesterday as part of the New Zealand U20 Ultimate Frisbee open team to take on their Australian counterparts –…