All things going to plan, Waipā’s Armistice commemorations should go like clockwork this weekend. Perfect weather conditions are predicted and event organisers in both Cambridge and Te Awamutu have arranged a series of events at…
All things going to plan, Waipā’s Armistice commemorations should go like clockwork this weekend. Perfect weather conditions are predicted and event organisers in both Cambridge and Te Awamutu have arranged a series of events at…
Cambridge High School’s runner-up to dux is excited about diving into a total immersion Māori language programme, Te Tohu Paetahi, at the University of Waikato next year. Seventeen-year-old Neve Keightley is hoping to emerge from…
They’ve been great mates since year 10 – now they are Cambridge High School’s head girl and head boy for 2024. Chiara Woodford and Levi Lamb were still processing the fact they’d just landed the…
For five years Anna Jago and Neve Keightley were close contenders for the top academic prize in their year group at Cambridge High School. The driven students could have been intense rivals, but it’s never…
I have just stood close up to Michelangelo’s ‘David’ statue. This remarkable sculpture is in the Accademia Gallery of Florence. Thirty years ago I came here and was disappointed to climb the stairs to the…
Edwin Robinson survived the land wars only to die in an unfortunate accident as Meghan Hawkes reflects on in Tales from the Passed. When a machinery belt broke at the Paterangi creamery in November 1902…
Leamington Rugby Sports Club has won the Waikato Rugby club sevens division 1 title for the fifth straight year. The last club rugby competition for the calendar year was played at Memorial Park on Saturday,…
It will be a long summer of celebration for members of the Cambridge Bowling Club which is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Mary Anne Gill was there on Saturday with her camera and notebook for the…
If you were to look at a thin slice of rock under a microscope, you would see that they look totally different up close. While rocks might mostly look a dull brown or grey, they…
The biggest worry Ben Lawrence had two hours out from the first Illuminate Light and Sound Show at Lake Karāpiro on Saturday night was technology might let him down. And it did. But the temporary…
