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Online abuse: Bullies on the grapevine

A Waipā District Councillor has delivered a public message to the community after itemizing a litany of abusive messages posted on social media platforms. And she has exposed the vicious abuse which has become the…

Councillors are told to lead

Former New Plymouth mayor Andrew Judd, a major voice in the move to enable Māori wards to be created without being hooked by a referendum, says Waipā District Councillors should be leading change rather than…

Engagement the “point of the Streets for People project”

From pink and blue polka dots and orange hit sticks to a one-way street and pop-up cycleway, the Streets for People project is turning heads. It’s a three-month trial aimed at making streets in Cambridge…

Time to talk — and decide — on long term plan

There is so much to be excited about, right now. Our new passenger rail service, Te Huia, is due to launch at the beginning of April and will, I believe, transform transport between Waikato and…

Obituary: A real gentleman farewelled

ALEXANDER STEWART MITCHELL December 5 1933 – March 19 2021 By Carole Hughes Alexander Stewart Mitchell was always known as Stewart. Stewart was a gentleman. He was a husband to Elizabeth, a father, a grandfather,…

Maddie and the arty bees

What would happen if all the world’s bees just… went? It’s a question former CHS student Maddie Shaw sought to answer in her scholarship winning design and photography portfolios, awarded earlier this year. Now, one…

Golden moment at the Maadi cup

Double sculls combination Jenna Markgraaf and Brylee Deacon  provided the highlight for Waipā schools at the 2021 Maadi Cup competition on Lake Karapiro. The U17 Double Sculls from Cambridge High collected the sole Waipā gold…

Opinion: living long and prospering

By Peter Carr Sometimes writing about the ’oldies’ brings with it a feeling the folk of more advanced years do not care what others think, but prefer to take life as it comes. Possibly they…

Our “secret spaces” revealed

Lucy Rowden has opened the shutters on her community project – Cambridge’s Secret Spaces. As the News revealed last November, the photographer has worked with Cambridge Museum to uncover spaces which were once seen regularly…

Fluoride call could mean changes

A move to give the Director General of Health the power to determine whether fluoride goes into water supplies has the potential to create divisions in Waikato. Only Hamilton City and Waikato District fluoridate all…

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