St John stars recognised

St John members from around the district were celebrated at Sunday’s Waipā and King Country Service Awards ceremony in Te Awamutu. Recipients were commended by Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan for their years of service to…

The Cambridge Cossie Club farewelled one of its own last week, celebrating the life of a man who had been there almost from the beginning. RODERICK ‘ROD’ COSTER: April 9, 1946 – July 25, 2025…

The spectre of abuse in some New Zealand care institutions will remain unless those responsible are held accountable and a bipartisan government approach is taken to address the recommendations of the Royal Commission of Inquiry…

Perceptions around refugees and displaced people were unpicked this month by a Cambridge-based academic whose life has been shaped by his own flight from El Salvador in 1981. Dr Vladimir Pacheco was speaking at the…

Jon Broadley spent part of his last day as a Brigadier talking up the competitive advantages New Zealand enjoys through its military. He described New Zealand’s peacekeeping efforts – part of the Defence Force’s critical…

Talk to anyone about Val Brett and you’ll find she was known as particularly diligent and organised, an irrepressibly ‘no-nonsense’ contributor to her community. What is probably less known is the fact that Val, who…

There is much more to nonagenarian Norm Frew than his fetching silver-fox style. The 93-year-old has become the first Cambridge Resthaven resident to take up the facility’s EV car-sharing option.  Every now and then he…

The annual display of blankets and clothing items knitted by members of the Cambridge Operation Cover-Up team and others in the community drew in plenty of admirers last week. Hundreds of blankets, jumpers, hats and…

The man helping take Waipā District Libraries’ public services into the age of technology has been nuts about computers since he was about four. Now in his late 20s, Joe Poultney is a self-confessed techno-nerd…

The deft hands of a veterinary surgeon and scientist are the same hands that have crafted the brilliant costumes for the upcoming St Peter’s Catholic School production of The Jungle Book. The three performances in…