A 33-year-old will appear in the Hamilton District Court tomorrow charged with indecently assaulting a female under 12 and intimidation. Police received several reports of a man in Cambridge making inappropriate advances towards women in…
A 33-year-old will appear in the Hamilton District Court tomorrow charged with indecently assaulting a female under 12 and intimidation. Police received several reports of a man in Cambridge making inappropriate advances towards women in…
Southbound drivers from Karāpiro were given what would have been for many, a different view of the countryside last week. A detour took traffic along Karāpiro and Taotaoroa roads while work was carried out on…
Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari neighbours are being offered “aversion training’ for their dogs – as part of the project to establish the North Island’s first breeding colony for over a century. Community support for the sanctuary…
Richard John Horner: 11.8.1941 – 5.12.2023 Richard Horner, who died in Cambridge last month, was a widely-respected landscape artist whose work graced the walls of homes around the world. Marion Hunt, past-president and current vice-president…
Nothing escapes Gerry Wake’s eagle eyes. The Te Awa resident can often be seen sitting in his mobility scooter on the temporary Cambridge Road cycle/pedestrian path watching the traffic go by and the contractors go…
I decided to write my first column for 2024 about the big economic problems New Zealand faces. There are many, and some go beyond big – they are enormous. None have arisen suddenly – they…
Steph Bell-Jenkins finds a school caretaker who is a class act. Wanted: creative caretaker who thinks like Peter Pan. We seek a resourceful person who is as comfortable cleaning toilets as they are constructing an…
Getting back into the swing of things and engaging mental ‘top gear’ at the outset of a new year has had its challenges for me. What doesn’t help, is scanning headlines as media pundits forecast…
You could be forgiven for thinking a bomb hit Bryce and Duke streets in Cambridge last week as contractors continued work on the $10.2 million pathway project. The cycleway from Hamilton Road south down Bryce…
Lava flows usually don’t kill people, but they do inflict significant damage infrastructure and homes. Being the focus of my research as I get into the new year, this is adding to my work on…
