Book’s memories revived

Another chance donation to the Cambridge Hospice Shop has given a decades-old item a new and timely purpose. When a well-thumbed scrapbook came in, nothing about the front cover and its picture of a rabbit…

Concerns around children’s vaping and addiction issues were among several raised with Taupō MP Louise Upston at last week’s Cambridge Friendly Forum. Cambridge Community Board chair Jo Davies-Colley told the forum the incidence of vaping…

Cambridge Middle School principal Daryl Gibbs has backed a call to tighten legislation around vaping but says his and many other intermediate-level schools had noticed a significant drop in vaping by students over the past…

The ‘I Am Me’ structured programme created in Cambridge to support women who are victim-survivors of family violence was introduced at a community forum in Te Awamutu last week. The programme pilot launched in Cambridge…

In his 40 years as sales manager for Winstone Wallboards, Cambridge’s David Philip drove an estimated three million kilometres in 32 company cars and spent over 2500 nights in hotels. What he failed to mention…

A celebrated Samoan-born businessman who made history as New Zealand’s first Pasifika computer science graduate and the first to earn an MBA, spoke last week on the value to his life of ‘cause and effect’….

If schoolbags could talk, Dean Cogswell’s 60-year-old leather one might have an interesting tale to tell – but its half-century disappearance promises to keep that secret. Dean is a member of Cambridge’s long-established Cogswell land…

Sleek lines and smooth curves dominated vehicle shapes at Sunday’s vintage car Daffodil Rally for Cancer event. It was the New Zealand Vintage Car Club’s national day and hundreds of vehicles around the country joined…

Founding member of the Waipā Holstein Friesian Club, Brian Knutson, is tickled pink with the honorary life membership award bestowed on him at the club’s recent 50th jubilee celebrations. The retired farmer, who became the…

Halfway through her first year as St Peter’s Catholic School principal, Nicole Higby is reflecting on how lucky she – and St Peter’s – really is. Results in the 2025 school board elections come out…