It’s a fine line between pleasure and pain, as the Divinyls’ song goes, but it’s a line Jim Thomassen gets a kick out of walking. Jim, 55, is a competitive chilli eater who will take…
It’s a fine line between pleasure and pain, as the Divinyls’ song goes, but it’s a line Jim Thomassen gets a kick out of walking. Jim, 55, is a competitive chilli eater who will take…
The bricks will stay but the neglected metal tank and outdoor walkway framing could go. That seems to be the fate of Cambridge’s historic Water Tower despite 62 per cent of the 223 submitters to…
Cambridge Town Hall is about to have its most successful income year in a decade, but it needs a seven figure injection of funds to preserve and activate it further. In a presentation to Waipā…
Anchor, an iconic global brand with century-old links to Cambridge, is up for sale. It is expected to fetch millions of dollars and boost dairy giant Fonterra and its suppliers’ bottom line by millions of…
Great news to start, the vehicle responsible for the burnouts on Shakespeare Street by Kingsley Street that I mentioned in a recent column, has been identified, located and impounded last week. Investigations continue into the…
Menzshed in Cambridge finally has a new home, but members are going to spend the first few months of their tenancy doing it up. The 122-year-old Leamington Dairy Factory in Carlyle Street is a shadow…
i-Site grants Te Awamutu and Cambridge i-Sites have been given grants of $30,000 each by Waipā District Council in the 2024-2025 financial year to help recover from the loss of the council’s funding. The decision…
Police have named the motorbike rider who died following a crash on Te Poi Road near Matamata on Friday. She was 51-year-old Donna Gaye McCauley from Waipa. Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are…
The V8 Utes championship is on a knife edge heading into the conclusion of the season as a full field of V8 Utes do battle at the season decider tomorrow and Sunday at Hampton Downs….
As a volcanologist I work hard on local and international research projects and I thrive spending long physically demanding days on volcanoes. I am also in pain almost every single day. May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome…
