Rotary backs pet shelter project

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’,…

The next phase of Predator-Free Mystery Creek has been launched   by the New Zealand National Fieldays Society (NZNFS). The information evening last week was designed to kickstart a wider movement to extend predator control into…

Cambridge’s Fred Simpson – family doctor, wordsmith and a man with his roots deeply embedded in Africa – will launch his second novel ‘The Sunflower and the Sparrow’ at PaperPlus Cambridge from 5.30pm on Thursday…

The growing need for people to better manage their asthma is behind a move by Asthma Waikato to extend its range of effectiveness in 2021. The three-person team operating from Hamilton plans to broaden its…