Seeds planted for next fest

The return this year of the Rotary Cambridge Garden Festival promises to be a highlight for the 2024-25 tenure of the club’s new president, Gary Smith. The November 10 festival was launched last week at…

The lost Plunket record book that inspired a serendipitous search for its owners has found its family. How the search came to an end is unusual to say the least.  It’s also testimony to the…

Cambridge Rotary Club David Partis immediate past president reckons he couldn’t have asked for a better year in office than the one just ended. Speaking to The News soon after the club changeover for the…

An almost 50-year-old Plunket record book with Hamilton connections is tugging at the heartstrings of staff and volunteers at the Cambridge Hospice Shop. he book, numbered 128 on the cover, is dated 1975 and has…

Almost everything about Camille French’s punt at a top Paris Olympics placing speaks to the power of great support. When the 33-year-old athlete left for France last week, part of the swell of national pride…

Anita Asumadu’s three-and-a-half year tenure as principal at St Peter’s Catholic School has ended. Having succeeded in elevating achievement among students and enriching staff engagement, she is headed now for seemingly quieter pastures in which…

John Coles’ determination that his QSM meant ‘Quite Some Man’ was probably not too far off the mark, despite it sounding less lofty than ‘Queen’s Service Medal’. That nugget of information, delivered by his son…

Cambridge Lyceum held a farewell gathering recently to mark the club’s closure after 84 years. Changing societal norms and dwindling membership led to the sale of the club’s home premises in Dick Street in late…

Those despairing for today’s youth were given a beacon of hope this month when St Paul’s Collegiate School headmaster Ben Skeen delivered a straight-talking message to Cambridge parents and youngsters. Speaking at Cambridge U3A, Skeen’s…

Seven young Cambridge men and women have been given a career leg-up through acceptance into the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards. They are Laura Findlay, Raj Goswami, Bonnie Lewis, Brendan Koevoet, Joel Clayton-Greene, Morgan Craven and…