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Education centre opens on maunga

“Education has always been a core purpose,” Jim Mylchreest says of Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain. So it was fitting that at the opening of the $846,000 Manu Korokii Education Centre on the maunga last week the…

Starting with the good news…

This week I have some good news stories to share. The first started with a simple traffic stop. Some people think that traffic policing has a narrow focus, but this is not the case. All…

Luxon outlines National plans

Opposition leader Chris Luxon has told business owners a National-led government would respond better to their needs, shrink wastage and seek wider global connections. He told those at last Thursday’s Cambridge Chamber of Commerce lunch…

Lifeline for festival carnival

Cambridge Autumn Festival’s iconic Main Street Carnival has secured funds so it can go ahead next month. Organisers of the 10 day long festival feared they would have to cancel the carnival when they failed…

Build and be damned

We Say This is the new view from on high of rural Waipā. These shade covers block views at ground level – and for that reason residents across the district are up in arms as…

Landowners see red: ‘I’ll be surrounded …. I’ll be in prison’

If an independent commissioner approves a retrospective land use consent for a giant kiwifruit orchard at 582 Parallel Road in Ōhaupō, Nick Jennings says everyone in the district is “doomed”. He and his family will…

Our very own storm trooper

A Cambridge student is using spare time ahead of her Wintec classes resuming by helping collect donations for victims of the Auckland floods. Charlotte Peake and her sister Mikaela are collecting items daily to deliver…

Inflation stood still

New Zealand’s annual inflation rate for 2022 was announced last week. It was 7.2 per cent, the same as it had been for the year to September, 2022. The Reserve Bank  had forecast 7.5 per…

The logic – and lack of it 

Daft: A generous way to describe some of the less than rational viewpoints adopted by some of the less than rational members of our wonderfully diverse global society. Only today,  I read somewhere on social…

Hero’s reception for Langman  

Andrew Langman, described as someone who has been fundamental to the success, positive culture and adaptability of  athletics for several years, has won a Sport Waikato award. He was presented with the 2022  Community Unsung…

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