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Cooking with class

A kitchen in a Cambridge home has won the best Character Kitchen Design Award at the National 2023 NKBA Excellence in Design Awards. The kitchen designed by DesignMarked Kitchens also won the Waikato Chapter Recognition…

Planting the corridor

More planting has been carried out in what is being developed into an ecological corridor between Maungatautari and Pirongia. The two maunga have successful pest control and restoration programmes and are separated by a distance…

Gardening is child’s play

Caroline Barns-Graham is part of the kaitiakitanga – garden guardians – of the Froude Reserve pop-up gardens in Leamington. She tends to the crops with the help of a team of gardeners from the neighbouring…

Kōkako numbers up

Kōkako – and kākāpō – are enjoying life in great numbers in the Waikato. Doc – the conservation department –  has revealed the results of its latest survey in the Waipapa South area of the…

It’s when, not if

New Zealand has experienced many more eruptions in our relatively recent history than most of us remember. Many may have memories of the Ruapehu 1995 and 1996 eruptions, some may remember the many eruptions of…

Beauty in the blooms

Waipā daffodil growers Clive Denton and Robin Hill were thrilled to be back ‘home’ at the weekend in the Cambridge Town Hall to show off their prize-winning flowers. The last time they were in the…

It’s our own fault

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently published its latest report on the New Zealand economy. The IMF does these reviews on their member countries about every 18 months. The report was not very flattering….

Grassroots backs pokie cap

The operator of 108 gaming machines at seven venues in Cambridge and Te Awamutu is supporting a cap on the number of pokie machines in Waipā. Limiting the total to 232 would mean Grassroots Trust…

On the run

Five schools gathered for the 2023 rural schools’ cross country event at Lake Karāpiro last week. “We made a brave call, given the threatening weather forecast, and were super-lucky to end up running in windy…

Lambing it up

A three-week-old lamb has been anything but sheepish about capturing the hearts of Cambridge rest home residents. After Princess Lambinton was abandoned by her mother last month – Mum had twins and only one udder…

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