Intervention from the Ombudsman has led to Waipā District Council releasing an event economic impact analysis to The News. Parts of the report – commissioned by the council in June and produced by Infometrics –…
Intervention from the Ombudsman has led to Waipā District Council releasing an event economic impact analysis to The News. Parts of the report – commissioned by the council in June and produced by Infometrics –…
I have written two columns previously on stories about what is happening in New Zealand that I would expect to see in a third world country but not here. As someone who worked in the…
Kirsty Johnson knows the grand old lady isn’t quite finished — but she’s proud of how far she’s come. Speaking at the Cambridge Town Hall Open Day on Saturday, Johnson – who since 2021 has…
Seventy-four years ago, Peter Ustinov starred in the cinema epic Quo Vadis. Literally translated as ‘where are you going’? Although for the historical purists the original alleged biblical utterance of the phrase would have sounded…
A mayoral candidate says he was naïve to include a campaign plug in a school newsletter, but Waipā deputy electoral officer Jo Gread says he did nothing wrong. Mike Pettit, principal of Cambridge Primary School…
I was talking in the street one day to a young man who was a Hare Krishna ‘devotee’. He’d approached me when I smiled at him which I guess encouraged him to ask me if…
Concerns around children’s vaping and addiction issues were among several raised with Taupō MP Louise Upston at last week’s Cambridge Friendly Forum. Cambridge Community Board chair Jo Davies-Colley told the forum the incidence of vaping…
Cambridge Middle School principal Daryl Gibbs has backed a call to tighten legislation around vaping but says his and many other intermediate-level schools had noticed a significant drop in vaping by students over the past…
It’s been a busy week for mayoral candidates scrambling to secure one-on-one time with voters before voting papers arrive. Candidates’ Facebook pages – some virtually unused until now – have been brimming with posts featuring…
Cambridge students can expect a “telling off” at upcoming school assemblies about riding bikes and scooters on footpaths in the town’s central business district. Principals at two schools – Cambridge High and Cambridge Middle –…
