What candidates said about third bridge

What candidates said about third bridge

Ruth Nicholls The lower bridge is under utilised. Jill Taylor Projects of this type involve the Council working with other organisations to complete full planning – and this takes time. Sue Milner Currently we have…

Schools star in planting project 

Almost 300 youngsters have planted 4000 plants in the Manga-o-tama catchment. The Manga-o-tama stream flows from Ōhaupō  to the Waipā River near Ngāhinapōuri in the west and the planting project brought together students from Paterangi,…

Back in the slot 

Cambridge Raceway officials are expected to reveal this week plans to hold the country’s richest harness racing night following on from the success of the inaugural event in April. The News asked Raceway chief executive…

What do your candidates think?

Are they for or against fluoride? Do they think Waipā is being run well? What do they make of the Voices for Freedom Movement which is offering to support candidates and who are members of…

Candidate raises data debate

Good Local editor Roy Pilott has refuted suggestions that a mayoral candidate colluded with one of the newspaper’s journalists to present information which was not publicly available. Pilott said the figures in question were obtained…

Rating the candidates – by their pictures

They were one of the biggest talking points from The News last week. The head and shoulder photos of election candidates – published exclusively in The News – generated a great deal of discussion about…

Rooks – needles in a haystack 

The annual attack on rooks in the Waikato region is underway – and the regional council says it is in catch up mode. In recent years the council’s control programme has reduced numbers of the…

Too many challenges to list… 

Rural communities are suffering through a lack of access to decent health services, it is dangerous and it is time something was done about it says Rural Women New Zealand. “The health and wellbeing of…

Feds fear ‘centralisation’  

Bigger is not necessarily better – and probably won’t be in the case of the proposed new mega water services entities, Federated Farmers says. While there are problems with three waters delivery and infrastructure and…

Good Sort gets new walker

A Cambridge man who nominated Dennis Lloyd as one of television’s Good Sorts has now convinced one of his business contacts to give the 91-year-old a new $800 walker. Todd Stephenson, who is the service…