Our heritage sites

Our heritage sites

Cambridge: Water Tower, Courthouse (Former), Monavale Homestead, Legal Chambers (Former), Trecarne Stables, Trecarne House, Band Rotundas – Cambridge and Leamington, Valmai Gazebo/Conservatory, Valmai House, Arnold House, Salvation Army Hall, Oddfellows Lodge (Former), Town Hall, World…

Online and growing…

Readers have discovered Cambridge News is available online first thing on Thursday morning, website statistics for March show. The www.cambridgenews.nz front page was the most visited with nearly 20 per cent of all visits last…

Brown takes Museum post

3 April Update – Andrew Brown was today appointed Te Ara Wai Governance Committee chair. An earlier version of the story in print below jumped the gun and suggested he had already been appointed. The…

The X-factor

A mystery is what the X-Race at Lake Te Koo Utu in Cambridge was meant to be. Xrace is a mystery adventure race where parents and children aged six to 14 race together, locate and…

A weekend of two halves

Cambridge had plenty to celebrate as it cut the cake of 75 years of football last weekend – but the result of their conference league team wasn’t one. The hosts were beaten 4-1 by Claudelands…

Andy’s tale is a winner

Anne Wilkins knows she must be doing something right after winning the Cambridge Autumn Festival Short Story competition. As she wiped away tears during a photo shoot with judges, former Waikato Times editor Venetia Sherson…

Down on Main Street…

Among the many events in and around Cambridge last weekend was the Main Street Carnival and Art Market. Mary Anne Gill was there to soak up the atmosphere.  

Sylvie’s photo stacked up

When Sylvie Davies-Colley saw her brother Lansley stacking wood they had found on the roadside after Cyclone Gabrielle, she knew it would make a cracking photograph. The 9-year-old Cambridge Primary School student won the youth…

Wood backs cycleways

The latest $10.4 million investment in safer Waipā walking and cycling pathways is money well spent, says Transport minister Michael Wood. Speaking exclusively to The News at a celebration for the completion of a 65-kilometre…