The phrase ‘down on the farm’ is taking on a worrying meaning these days. What’s going down on the farm today are the prices for the things farmers produce and export. Wool prices are so…
The phrase ‘down on the farm’ is taking on a worrying meaning these days. What’s going down on the farm today are the prices for the things farmers produce and export. Wool prices are so…
A Cambridge team formed two years ago with a player centric aim has taken out the secondary schools’ premier grade title at Hamilton Netball Centre’s Saturday competition. TVP Thunder beat Hillcrest High 33-31 in the…
Waipā chief executive Garry Dyet will be able to settle legal claims up to $50,000 – $40,000 more than currently – under changes approved by the council this week. Dyet can also approve up to…
Masonic Hotel will be no more. But what it will be called once it becomes Cambridge’s new boutique hotel is something its owner Gerry Westenberg is not prepared to reveal yet. Westenberg was one of…
Last weekend I was having breakfast with friends who experienced Cyclone Gabrielle in the Hawkes Bay area. As is natural for many conversations in my life, it started out talking about eruptions, then moved on…
Former Waipa Networks Trust chair Craig Sanders is no longer a trustee. Sanders – who led the trust for nine years – told The News on Monday it was because he had moved to Dunedin…
Tenants in Waipā District Council’s pensioner housing units will see a modest rental increase from next month. The rental increases were received at Tuesday’s council meeting, following an independent rates assessment based on market rental…
Just seven of 30 politicians who responded to a Good Local Media poll said they were comfortable with a three-year term for councils. Twenty thought going to four years was a better option, three were…
Cambridge’s town clock will undergo “open heart surgery” costing more than $450,000 but the upside is once the work is done, operating and maintenance costs will reduce. Property Services project manager Greg Boyle told Waipā…
An aged aunty, who was special to me, passed away just before her 100th birthday. She often remarked that time had ‘flown by’ in spite of having a lifetime spanning almost a century. I guess…
