Growing economic hardship saw the number of local families receiving Cambridge Christmas Cheer increase last year to 112, up from the 77 families receiving help in 2019. Cambridge Committee of Social Services (CCOSS) organisers have…
Cambridge couple Betty and Barry Harvey recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary, marking their milestone with a touch of nostalgia. The couple’s ‘blue sapphire’ event was shared by several of their children, who toasted them…
Michael Jeans’ contribution to the photographic story of Cambridge has been recognised with a Cambridge Community Board Community Service Award. The award was presented lasty week at a Cambridge Community Board (CCB) meeting, part of…
Cambridge Rotary’s charity fundraising dinner will have Kiwi driving legend Greg Murphy as its guest speaker. Organisers of the April 16 event, which starts at 6pm, are keen to sell as many tickets as possible and…
Te Awamutu-born author Scott Bainbridge is the first of several authors lined up to give public talks during Waipā District Libraries’ Author Month. Scott will talk about his books and some of his upcoming projects…
Cambridge as a town developed at a surprisingly rapid pace. From 1864, it took little more than a decade for the settlement to grow from a military fort into a bustling town complete with the…
After years of operating out of private garage spaces, members of the Greater Waikato Railway Modellers (GWR) have a new home. They moved into the old Leamington Bowling Club building last November, rapidly filling the…
Overnight hallucinations, 250,000 steps and 165 tough kilometres; that, and much more, sums up Allysia Kraakman’s Tarawera Ultramarathon experience earlier this month. Talking through the February 13-14 event over coffee, she reckoned it was a…
At an impressive 105-years-old, Maurice ‘Maurie’ Evans is the living embodiment of the glass-half-full approach to life. He has faced love and loss through the years, struggled with the aftermath of spending four years on…
A movie night being held at Cambridge’s Tivoli Theatre on Tuesday March 2 will help the four Cambridge businesswomen raise funds for Oxfam. Booking details and tickets for the movie, ‘Love, Weddings and Other Disasters’,…
