Cambridge Middle School student Alanna Rawson has smashed a series of swimming records at the Waikato intermediate school championships. The 12-year-old year eight student broke three records – including one dating back to 1983. Her…
Waipā rowers won six golds at last weekend’s North island Secondary Schools Rowing Championships in glorious weather on Lake Karāpiro. St Peters, Te Awamutu College and Cambridge High featured in more than 70 races over…
Out of the mist – runners enjoyed the opportunity to run the length of Hamilton’s runway. Photo: Roy Pilott A record turnout, and a record time. Rotary’s annual run Run the Runway fundraiser was tagged…
It was just a day after he celebrated his 70th birthday that Jim Mylchreest was ousted as Waipā’s mayor. He was aiming for a fourth – and probably final term – having spent nine years…
What’s it like when voters boot you out of office and you have hours to clean out your desk? Roy Pilott talks to former mayor Jim Mylchreest about life after politics. Jim Mylchreest says central…
Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan has rejected suggestions a blind eye is being turned to kiwifruit orchardists who have ignored district bylaws. An editorial in last week’s edition of The News suggested the council appeared content…
Waipā felt enough of Cyclone Gabrielle’s force to leave it without power in many places – and a huge mess to clean up. The Cambridge central business district was crippled by a power cut and…
It’s from the believe or not files – an Anko saucepan from Kmart won the race to be the Consumer Institute’s Top of the Pots. Consumer delivered the news last week, leaving owners of the…
“Education has always been a core purpose,” Jim Mylchreest says of Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain. So it was fitting that at the opening of the $846,000 Manu Korokii Education Centre on the maunga last week the…
A Cambridge student is using spare time ahead of her Wintec classes resuming by helping collect donations for victims of the Auckland floods. Charlotte Peake and her sister Mikaela are collecting items daily to deliver…
