I recently attended the 50th celebration of Schick Construction, a local company started by a guy with a truck which now employs over 300 people. It was inspiring. Why then is it so hard to…
I recently attended the 50th celebration of Schick Construction, a local company started by a guy with a truck which now employs over 300 people. It was inspiring. Why then is it so hard to…
The newly-revamped seminar room at Taylor Made Community Space is reopening for a post-Easter resurgence. After months of renovations which have included the installation of a new commercial kitchen, new carpeting and paintwork, the space…
Historian Tom Roa says when the government say it feels Māori pain over O-Rakau, it is simply paying lip service. The Waikato University professor delivered his rebuke when speaking on Tuesday at the 160th anniversary…
After Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the Exclusive Brethren, he was lost as he had been taught not to challenge authority nor ask any questions. “We were told if you don’t understand it, don’t question…
Type the surname ‘Hoyle’ into the Waipā cemetery online database and several dozen names pop up. When we meet, Craig Hoyle is standing in front of one of them at Hautapu Cemetery in Cambridge –…
I hope everyone enjoyed the long Easter weekend and managed to get a break. Unfortunately, opportunist criminals sometimes see holiday weekends as a great time to commit more crime. Ford Courier utes seem to be…
Cambridge High School is looking to successfully defend its title when Waipā neighbours Te Awamutu College host the Waikato Regional Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ University of Otago Sheilah Winn festival on Friday (April 5). It…
Waipā will host its first Home and Leisure Show next month. Good Local Media – publisher of a trio of community newspapers – Cambridge News, King Country News and Te Awamutu News – has organised…
Young Cambridge actors have key parts in the coming Playbox Theatre company’s production of The Borrowers which opens I just over a week. Thomas Briston, Holly Fulforth, Liam Dobson and Lyra Slaughter are among a…
The recent Department of Statistics release of gross domestic product data for the December quarter, 2023, showed that New Zealand is ‘officially’ in recession. The phrase ‘being in recession’ is applied to a country when…
