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Flying the flag for greyhounds

Fifty-nine greyhounds took part in the Cambridge’s Great Global Greyhound Walk late last month, making it the third biggest New Zealand centre doing the international awareness event. The September 24 walk at the Cambridge Raceway…

Into the wild

In light of recent news reports of hikers being rescued from the Tongariro/Ngāuruhoe volcanic complex, I hope it will help to share how I get ready for fieldwork as a volcanologist. Seeing hikers who are…

Change for villas

One of New Zealand’s largest retirement village providers has confirmed it will no longer provide rental accommodation for senior citizens in its St Andrew’s Cambridge facility. Metlifecare has told the 11 people living in the…

We’re on the wrong road

The local government reform process continues at a slow pace and road deaths make grim reading. The fact that Local Government New Zealand have chosen not to make some of the issues raised in the…

We’re in the business

Cambridge News publisher Good Local Media has added another print masthead to the company’s stable. Owner David Mackenzie announced this week he had bought the Waikato Business News. It was a trusted and respected name…

A shout out to voters

The right to vote is one of those “must have” acts for which many have fought – and died – in the past. Ask the lady who threw herself under the King’s horse in England…

Paua gets a library booking

A Cambridge architect whose work features in several houses and buildings around the town has won the contract to provide a concept of what a new library might look like. Antanas Procuta and his Hamilton-based…

Don’t let the bed bugs bite

Jo Davies-Colley thought she had her suitcase all packed and under control for her trip to Cambridge’s sister city Le Quesnoy this week until someone told her there was a bed bug crisis in France….

A heart for what matters most…

One day we went to visit an older lady who in earlier years had been a significant force in our community. Her days of expending practical care for others had ended and needing a little…

Just briefly ……..

Bev’s best brew What better way to start last Sunday’s International Coffee Day than with a brew you’ve had a hand in making?  Bev Geange, a resident of Arvida Lauriston Park in Cambridge, helped café…

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