Leamington’s Senior A rugby team goes into this year’s competition with a younger team than last year. A number of last year’s players have gone overseas and will be replaced by players from last year’s…
Leamington’s Senior A rugby team goes into this year’s competition with a younger team than last year. A number of last year’s players have gone overseas and will be replaced by players from last year’s…
A decade of voluntary bush clearing, plant growing, path construction, building bridges and installing retaining walls was honoured with the official opening of Te Puna Marama in Cambridge on Monday. Representatives present were from Ngāti…
Recently a family asked me to lead a memorial service for a loved one. Lots of thought went into the ‘components’ of the service for this lady who I had known well. At least, I’d…
Hautapu alumni Dylan Eti and James Thompson have been floating around the Chiefs rugby squad in 2025. The pair of former St Peter’s School Cambridge students join a large cohort of Hautapu associated players who…
Waipā is print-ready with water asset plans, Mary Anne Gill reports, but Chris Gardner finds one of their proposed partners is still making its mind up. Waipā District Council has revealed it plans to go…
Financial data presented at an Ōtorohanga District Council elected members workshop shows ratepayers are better off sharing ownership of the district’s water infrastructure with other councils rather than going it alone. But an options analysis…
The annual opportunity for Cambridge Chamber of Commerce members to get to know each other on the golf course was held at Cambridge Golf Club last week. Despite the fairways resembling the Sahara Desert, the…
Hamilton city councillor Andrew Bydder says he will stand for both Waipā and Hamilton councils at the upcoming local body elections. Bydder, a 54-year-old Cambridge architectural designer, has ruled out a bid for Waipā mayor…
Planning for the belated extension of the Waikato Expressway to the new Piarere roundabout is gaining pace. An animated flyover of the new road is now online. But it’s come at an emotional cost. The…
This week I will start by talking alcohol. The minimum legal age for purchasing alcohol in New Zealand is 18 years. Alcohol affects our rangatahi differently to adults, because they are still developing – physically,…
