His hands raw and painful, Leo Smith Serei was desperate to quit guitar lessons – but his teacher, June MacKenzie, knew he had something special. “On the first two weeks my fingers were really sore…
His hands raw and painful, Leo Smith Serei was desperate to quit guitar lessons – but his teacher, June MacKenzie, knew he had something special. “On the first two weeks my fingers were really sore…
A land use resource consent application lodged with Waipā council gives the first indication of how a former hardware and garden centre site in central Cambridge will look. Ingham Motor Group owns and leases land…
Two horses with Waipā connections in the sulkies and on the training track are in with top chances at Cambridge Raceway’s Night of Champions next week. Cambridge trainer Arna Donnelly and six-year-old bay gelding Kango…
Cambridge High trio Isabelle Murray, Tegan O’Dwyer and Lucy Eastwood all picked up three gold medals at the Maadi Cup secondary school rowing regatta completed on Lake Karāpiro on Saturday. Their school competed in three…
Picture a millpond on a summer’s evening. The last of the day’s sunlight angles through the low hanging leaves and sparkles on the water. The light catches a strand of a spider’s web wafting through…
High inflation, rising interest rates and storm damage to roading mean Waikato District Council might have to lift rates for the coming year as high as double the 3.5% rise anticipated back in 2021. The…
I love a good action movie, and if they have an eruption or some other geological disaster as a plot line I am in. With field work at Mount Doom (Ngāuruhoe) last week and making…
In the early hours of January 23, Black Sticks goalkeeper Leon Hayward walked out onto the bright blue turf at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, India, with New Zealand’s hopes resting on his shoulders. The Black…
Cam O’Leary batted sensibly to take St Peter’s through to victory.Flynn Morey’s man of the match 5-52 backed up by Xavier Bell’s all-round effort with bat, ball and in the field saw St Peter’s School,…
This week I attended facilitator training for the Loves Me Not programme which will be delivered to Year 12 students later this month. The programme was developed following the murder of Sophie Elliott by her…