It’s Long-Term Plan time again at Waikato Regional Council. The LTP review happens every three years, falling within the second year of the council term. It sounds boring, but it’s an important planning document, which…
It’s Long-Term Plan time again at Waikato Regional Council. The LTP review happens every three years, falling within the second year of the council term. It sounds boring, but it’s an important planning document, which…
Alana Mackay takes a deep breath and tries to sum up the Main Street Carnival and Art Market in Cambridge on Sunday. “We managed to pull something together,” the Autumn Festival Trust chair says modestly…
Squealing rubber, revving engines and the associated aftermath of shredded tyres and rubber marks on the road are all too common signs of boy racer and burnout activity around Cambridge. I understand the annoyance and…
A power team of five – including four from Cambridge – New Zealand Para cyclists are poised to perform at the 2024 Para Cycling Track World Championships starting tomorrow (Thursday) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil….
Winners announced Jane Thompson and Valentina Di Maio of Cambridge won the open and youth categories in the Paua Architects’ sponsored Autumn Festival photography competition. The announcements were made at a launch function in the…
She was a triple champion two weeks ago – now she has a Maadi medal in her sights. “Getting three gold medals in a regatta’s pretty unheard of, so we were ecstatic with that,” said…
About 2000 secondary school athletes are gearing up to compete at this year’s Aon Maadi Regatta in Twizel from March 18-23, hoping the hours they’ve poured into early-morning trainings will pay off. Behind the scenes,…
Venus was the brightest object in the sky and the Southern Cross was high up as more than 300 people took the opportunity to run the Hamilton Airport runway on Sunday. Maintenance work at the…
As I looked through the newspapers last week trying to decide what issue could be the theme for this column, I was surprised by how many New Zealand news stories were about things that I…
I visited an elderly couple in an aged care facility. Their marriage had stood the test of multiple decades – understandably, natural physical deterioration from those passing years showed, but not a hint of fractiousness…
