Archie Griffin grabs his ukelele and starts strumming the first chords of the John Denver classic Take Me Home Country Roads. The 75-year-old reveals it is the song the Riverside Ukes will play as his…
Archie Griffin grabs his ukelele and starts strumming the first chords of the John Denver classic Take Me Home Country Roads. The 75-year-old reveals it is the song the Riverside Ukes will play as his…
i-Site to stay open Cambridge’s i-Site will remain in the Town Hall after July 1 despite its funding from Waipā District Council discontinuing from that date. Destination Cambridge general manager Ruth Crampton made the announcement…
They have been around for millions of years, often don’t live long enough to celebrate a second birthday – and without human help they will die out. So the opening of a new wing at…
I was recently asked how reliable our technology is for giving us warnings about eruptions. The answer is complex. It’s a mix of our technology, the people we have monitoring our volcanoes, how well we…
Our culture seems to have elevated science and reason over ‘faith’. Making a god of analytical thinking and intellect restricts our comprehension of how much more there is, infinitely beyond what can be seen, touched,…
My 14 March column was titled ‘what is wrong with NZ?’ I had been surprised and even shocked by the number of stories appearing that I would have expected to refer to third-world countries I…
Public transport, the Te Huia railway connection between Auckland and Hamilton and cycleways continue to make headlines in the Waikato. Senior writer Mary Anne Gill spent time in the United Kingdom and Europe recently and…
One of Cambridge’s most loyal daughters, Joan McCathie, was lauded recently as inspirational, generous and an insatiable local historian. After Joan’s death last month, just weeks after her 83rd birthday, the outpouring of memories penned…
The designation for a new school in Cambridge, which the Coalition government put the brakes on earlier this year, lapses in 2031, Waipā council’s Strategic and Policy committee were told this week. The answer came…
Driving hard towards a dream No-one can say Cambridge born Jordan Woodall is not toiling hard to achieve his goal. The Cambridge Golf Club member spends 30-hours a week at a-part-time job at Cambridge Tyre…
