National award for green-fingered group

National award for green-fingered group

A “spectacular” garden in Cambridge has earned national honours. The Bupa St Kilda retirement village’s community garden was announced as the “Best Communal Veggie Garden” in the annual Bupa Retirement Villages 2019 gardening competition last…

Fieldays is nearly here

Cambridge is already in Fieldays mode. The Southern Hemisphere’s largest agricultural event will hit Mystery Creek June 12 – 15, attracting an expected 130,000-plus visitors, over a thousand exhibitors and $490 million in sales revenue…

Runner a record-success

Commitment is the key to success, says Annalies Kalma, who last month smashed the North Island Secondary School athletics record for the under 16 400m sprint, running it in 54.69 seconds. She is now ranked…

Rent rise has pensioners complaining

Pensioners facing rent rise in Waipā are at odds with the district council over the amount they must pay – and how well their units are maintained. Weekly rent prices for the 129 pensioner housing…

Cambridge bands among the best at Rockquest

Nine young Cambridge musicians left the Clarence St Theatre still standing after figuratively ‘rocking the house down’ during the Smokefree Rockquest Waikato heats. Cambridge High School’s Betend Rocket, and two St Peter’s School groups made…

Swimmers earn national titles

Savanna Bourke has made her breakthrough onto the national podium at the New Zealand Age Group Swimming Championships. The 13-year-old swimmer capped off the meet in Wellington last month with a bronze medal in the…

Food festival brings cultures together

Students at Cambridge High School revived a long-time school favourite last week – the Cambridge High School International Food Festival. The event hadn’t been held since 2016, but due to popular demand the school’s student…

Basketballers back from Greece

The St Peter’s Premier Girls basketball team have returned from the ISF World Championships in Greece ranked fifth in the world. The team, which was the first female team to represent New Zealand at the…

Council working on bus situation

Waipa District Council says there is no intention to ban buses in the CBD after concerns around their mobility in town were discussed at the Cambridge growth strategy committee meeting on April 29. At that…

Health check for Cambridge businesses

Cambridge’s business sector has been advised to be more audacious and collaborative in shaping its future, ‘take the pulse’ of a changing consumer base, and plan now to head off a looming labour shortage. Those…