The inclusion of eight Special Olympians among their number made last week’s Christmas lunch particularly special for Interlock NZ. The group, whose members come from Cambridge, Hamilton, Te Awamutu and Matamata, offers a welcoming space…
The inclusion of eight Special Olympians among their number made last week’s Christmas lunch particularly special for Interlock NZ. The group, whose members come from Cambridge, Hamilton, Te Awamutu and Matamata, offers a welcoming space…
Cambridge Community House volunteers do a valuable job encompassing a variety of different roles and have proved to be ‘indispensable’ to manager Gabby Byrne, who stepped into the role nine months ago. Speaking at a…
All the classroom’s a stage, and all the teachers merely players. When Catherine Bell and Alistair Martin joined the teaching profession “many years ago” they quickly discovered how much of a theatrical element was involved….
Tauwhare School’s long serving, high-heel-wearing, opera singing principal retired last Tuesday after 20 years in the job and 32 years at the school. “Most of all, I’m going to miss the kids,” she said. “That…
A long-running community arts festival which attracts hundreds of performers and thousands of spectators every autumn has failed to attract a grant from the Creative Communities scheme. The biggest impact on the Cambridge Autumn Festival…
The Cambridge News Person of the Year Award has, for the first time, not gone to a person. It’s gone to a school community. Mary Anne Gill explains. Karāpiro School might be small but there…
Cambridge Junior Cricket Club’s 12 junior hardball teams, which play in a Waikato competition, wrapped up their season with prizegiving at Cambridge Baptist Church on Saturday afternoon. Zak Anderson took out the premium award, Cambridge…
Changes to Waipā’s District Plan are being considered to better enable Māori to use their land for housing. A report discussed this week considered how the council can best meet community expectations around papakāinga –…
Cycling New Zealand’s elite track riders are starting a hectic and vital summer programme with Paris Olympic qualification at stake. With the shortened Olympiad post-Tokyo, qualifying steps up a gear in 2023, with the key…
A family celebrating 11 years in their new home have become naturalised New Zealanders. Angeline Naomi and Christo Van der Merwe, and their two children Eben and Yolinda moved to New Zealand from South Africa…
