Celebrating 70 years

  At Eastern Beach Christian Holiday Camp, Don plucked up the courage to make his move. They had “eyed each other” at church previously – but hadn’t spoken. “I happened to be in the vicinity…

A school holiday winter wonderland was in Cambridge this week. A synthetic ice-skating rink set up at Cambridge Raceway attracted about 1500 people – both parents and kids – during the course of its four-day…

  The 30-year-old Cambridge Tree Trust is back planting post Covid-19 – and its voluntary membership has grown it highest level. Chair Eric Todd said it is not uncommon for more than 30 people to…

The bounce of the rugby ball has gone Hautapu School’s way. “We’ve had an offer from a rugby coach to come and work with the 6th grade team,” the email from Hautapu School sport co-ordinator…

  One evening, Sian Winmill’s head started twitching and repetitively banging her shoulder. For six hours it wouldn’t stop. The 18-year-old former St Peter’s School Cambridge student had previously mentioned “random twitching” she occasionally experienced…

  Racing Minister Winston Peters has called New Zealand’s first synthetic racetrack the chance of a lifetime after his first look at it. The deputy Prime Minister was joined by New Zealand First MP Clayton…

  Victoria was a bridge too far for Cambridge’s Lisa Payne. Last week as she drove daughter Ruby over Victoria Bridge to school from Leamington when she ran out of fuel. “I wasn’t even halfway…

    Tamahere’s Kelly Johnson is one of the YWCA’s inaugural Y25 wāhine toa – warrior women – of 2020. The initiative aims to support young women doing big things in their respective fields. Being…

  Reel talk – Cambridge’s Tivoli Cinema remains the only Waikato cinema to have reopened since the country shifted to Covid-19 Alert Level 2. But, a government announcement this week increasing the size limit on…

Ask not for whom the bell tolls in Cambridge – because since the start of lockdown the answer has been for no one. But now thanks to a group of Council parks and reserves team…