A wailing siren caught my attention while driving in a busy city this week. You know how it goes – at first, it’s hard to determine what it is (fire, police, ambulance) or where it’s…
A wailing siren caught my attention while driving in a busy city this week. You know how it goes – at first, it’s hard to determine what it is (fire, police, ambulance) or where it’s…
Spencer Cleland is shooting for the stars as her prepares to go boldly where only a select group of budding scientists have gone before. The St Peter’s School year 13 student is one of 24…
University on the up In my column below, I wrote that Waikato University’s ranking of 250th in the QR global rankings of universities placed it sixth amongst New Zealand’s eight universities. That was wrong. It…
Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari is advertising for a full time general manager as part of a move to bolster fundraising and its profile. Chief executive Andrew Peckham, who took up the post in December, said the…
Two men who have toiled tirelessly for Cambridge Lions’ ‘Trash ‘n Treasure Market’, Bill Cairns and Gus Wackrow, have stepped back to leave new man Pat Whyte at the helm from July 1. The monthly…
“You’ve never seen it miss this house, and miss that house, and come after you!” said Dr. Jo Harding, meteorologist in the 1996 movie Twister. This quote kept playing through my head while walking around…
John Hansen’s dream of seeing a flyover rather than a roundabout at the Piarere intersection of highways one and 29 appears to have been dashed. The Cambridge resident’s case won a lot of support in…
Waipā council will spend quarter of a million dollars more than budgeted this financial year because of a restructure in the communications team. The annual spend will be $722,812 which includes some, but not all,…
Ahead of Hautapu’s 11th appearance in a Waikato senior men’s club rugby final Mary Anne Gill caught up with two players already hard at work. Jason Thomasen and Nic Jeffcoat typify amateur club rugby at…
The Cambridge Rotary Club’s new president David Partis wants to add a ‘Rotary’ element to the town’s well-established sister city relationship with Le Quesnoy in France. Among his stated focus areas for his year in…
