Concerns around local government bureaucracy, support for business, youth opportunities, and balancing growth with the preservation of Waipa’s core values were expressed at Monday’s ‘Meet the next Waipā Mayor’ gathering at the Cambridge Town Hall….
As Cambridge Citizens Advice Bureau chair Caroline Kitching settles into her second year at the helm, she is moving to broaden the reach of bureau services in the community. She is initiating a three-pronged ‘outreach’…
Little Moana-Rose Dryland thanked the Cambridge Lions for her new play areas in the way most four-year-olds would. Clasping the hand of her leading Lion Graeme Surgenor, she pulled him up the ramp and over…
Winston ‘Wint’ Steen was as straight up a guy as you could wish to meet. He was kind, hard-working, deeply competitive, a great listener who remained discreet and a loyal family and community man. His…
Cambridge Women’s Club leaders, from left, Christine Griffith, Raewyn Handcock, Jennie Gainsford, Cabby Keyte and Renata Stent. Missing from the gathering was Jacky van der Poel (see inset). Cambridge Women’s Club is coming off the…
A public memorial service for Winston ‘Wint’ Steen will be held at the Cambridge Fire Station on Saturday. The man who was the longest-serving member of the Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade and a community stalwart…
Tauwhare School principal Fiona Bradley is ‘gutted and disappointed’ at the theft of an AED (automated external defibrillator) from a secure lockbox attached to an outer school wall. The box was forced open sometime around…
Ten gardens, nine of them new to the event, will feature in November’s Rotary Garden Festival. The event is a major fundraiser for Rotary Cambridge, bringing in thousands of dollars for local charities. It will…
Cambridge’s Jumble Around op-shop has a record $170,000 to give away this year and is calling for more non-profit organisations and clubs to reach out for help. The charity has returned well over $1 million…
Cambridge’s Helen Hansen has to be one of the ballsiest shooting stars this town can claim. She’s our own version of the ‘Big Bang’s Bernadette’, a little bit rockabilly and a lot more besides. When…
