Waterskiing brothers fly high

Cricket has Brendon and Nathan McCullum, rugby has the Barretts and now Cambridge has the Runciman brothers. Siblings Joel, Luke and Joshua Runciman might one day be in the same league of sporting stardom after…

Racing will go synthetic for the first time in New Zealand on May 19 – in Waipā. A new synthetic track in Cambridge has been booked for 12 race meetings in the 2021-22 season. The…

Swimmers will take a first dip at the Perry Aquatic Centre in Cambridge on May 15. The revamped facility boasts a new 10-lane 25m indoor pool, a toddler pool, hydrotherapy pool, spa, sauna, children’s splash…

Waipā District Council has launched a new podcast series which focuses on hot topics from around the District. The What’s new Waipā? podcast will regularly share local views, information and opinions about topics that are…

By Peter Nicholls People around my age (I am 77) can still remember when consumer price inflation was over 10 per cent a year and was a major problem. But CPI inflation in New Zealand,…

Members from two regional Freemason lodges spent time recently processing and shifting loads of firewood they intend selling in support of the Casting for Recovery (CfR) programme. Cambridge’s Alpha Lodge 81, and the Te Awamutu-based…

Cambridge chartered accountant Kirsty Johnson was unanimously elected chair of the new Cambridge Town Hall Community Trust on Monday. Experienced business and community leader Rob Feisst will be her deputy. The seven-strong trust held its…

Cambridge based copy writer Stuart Mathews has inadvertently weighed in on the Streets for People debate in the town – by becoming the victim of a road crash. On Thursday morning I got hit by…

By Lisa Merts It’s a year late because of Covid, but the Netherlands Society Waikato will commemorate 75+1 year of Liberation Day and freedom later this month with an exhibition. On May 4, 1945, at…

Waipā District Council ratepayers may be facing lower proposed rate increases than others around the country and staff say that is partly because of growth. Council is consulting on its draft Long-Term Plan which proposes…