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Price hedging gains traction

A record number of dairy farmers and rural professionals have turned out for a milk price hedging workshop. Thirty-two people showed up for the workshop at Fonterra Farm Source, Cambridge, a larger turnout than previous…

News ….. in brief

Te Awamutu local Corban George-Potterton has won the Riding for the Disabled (RDA) Young Volunteer of the Year Award for 2023 from a pool of 48 RDA groups across New Zealand. He is a Riding…

Beanies and vortices for Fieldays

Two Waipa residents are pinning their hopes on a successful outing at this week’s National Fieldays. One of them is the Cambridge-based chief executive of Brain Tumour Support NZ, Sarah Verran, who hopes the national…

When volcanic gases turn deadly

Starting at 9 to 10 pm on August  21,1986, heavy gases crept along the ground from the volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, moving silently towards villages and homes. Over the following six to 36 hours…

Thanks – with advice

Judy Donovan never came out of the Pureora Forest in late March. She was the subject of an extensive search. Today, speaking exclusively to the King Country News, her daughter tells of the family’s gratitude…

Five Stags fights loss of liquor license

Nora Fu is fighting to bring back cold beer to Pirongia’s Five Stags Restaurant and Bar. Fu, the sole shareholder of the Franklin Street bar and restaurant operator Night Pearl, has been unable to sell…

Alana at helm in Karāpiro

Alana Thompson decided she was going to be a teacher on her very first day of school, in 1993. “When I turned five, I had the most amazing teacher, Mrs Kitty Higgins,” she said. “She…

Miners get international praise

Gordon and Heather McInally were so impressed with the Urban Miners recycling operation in Cambridge they intend to take the concept home to Scotland. The couple visited the Cambridge Rotary Club’s star performer, Urban Miners,…

Here is the news – from 1905

Oh, how things have changed! A 1905 Waikato newspaper unearthed recently by Cambridge man Bill Wilson makes for some interesting comparisons with today’s newspapers.  The content and style has changed drastically and so has the…

We are what we feel

I wonder if we realise how much what we think about, the type of thoughts we allow in our ‘headspace’, plus their accompanying emotions, determines the outcomes of our life? I was visiting someone in…

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