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Hosts top at Owl Farm school event

Students from five King Country, Waipā and Hauraki high schools converged for the third education and agri-skills event at Owl Farm, St Peter’s School, Cambridge last week. Since 2015, Owl Farm has been one of…

Hall season schedule unveiled

If you felt inspired to play the bassoon after hearing Todd Gibson-Cornish at the launch of the Cambridge Town Hall season last week, be prepared for some hard work. But the resulting sound, particularly in…

Perhaps, possibly, purportedly

The Government held a major Foreign Investment Forum in Auckland in mid-March. They see increased foreign investment as a way to moderate many of our major economic problems: increase our anaemic economic growth, reduce our…

Fete would have it

What is a fete? Leaning upon that well-thumbed tome the  Oxford Dictionary I am informed that it is an outdoor public function usually to garner funds for charity. What better setting to hold one last…

News ….. in brief

Rukuhia rebuild Both lanes of a short section of State Highway 3 between Rukuhia and Narrows roads near Hamilton airport are being rebuilt and closed to southbound traffic until April 5. The rebuild work involves…

Fundraisers go the distance

Cambridge Community House (CCH) is more than $6000 better off thanks to the efforts of two recent fundraisers – one by an individual and the other a group event. The more recent of the two…

Another bridge too far

The developer behind two of Waipā’s biggest projects in the last decade has ruled out land near St Peter’s School in Cambridge for a third Waikato River bridge. 3Ms of Cambridge Development, in a joint…

Maadi parade – no cause for alarm

Cambridge streets were packed with supporters and students from the 150 schools competing at Lake Karāpiro in the New Zealand Secondary Schools Rowing Championships, lined up with their banners in Wilson Street. The anticipation was…

Rowing’s in the family

Dunedin’s Columba College students were already winners before their boats hit the Lake Karāpiro waters for the Maadi Regatta which started on Monday. They took out the best banner award for what judge Waipā mayor…

End of road for i-Site

Cambridge i-Site will close on June 30 following cutbacks, a rent increase and Riverside Adventures’ decision to move out of the Town Hall space. Destination Cambridge, which has 150 members and previously ran the i-Site…

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