Barbara Holmes was just arriving home in Hamilton when she got a call from her son, Brad, from Brisbane. A post from the Cambridge Grapevine about her Victoria Street store Holmes and Co., had made…
Barbara Holmes was just arriving home in Hamilton when she got a call from her son, Brad, from Brisbane. A post from the Cambridge Grapevine about her Victoria Street store Holmes and Co., had made…
Ken Sheldrick remembers days when people would bury their old plates and crockery to dispose of them. Then antique collecting became popular. “We were the first recyclers,” the octogenarian, who has owned Colonial Heritage Antiques…
In mid 2020 I got a Facebook friend request from veteran Kiwi filmmaker Costa Botes. Why is he friending me I wondered? Later after a screening at the 2022 NZ International Film Festival, Costa explained…
John Wood will join the Te Awamutu Community Board after provisional votes saw him oust provisional member Norris Hall today. Special votes are yet to come. Wood, a semi-retired drainlayer/plumber, has links with Pirongia having…
Susan O’Regan has beaten incumbent Jim Mylchreest to be the new Waipā mayor. The 50-year-old Kakepuku farmer becomes the district’s first female mayor and only the fifth since the district’s establishment in 1989. It was…
We asked columnist Peter Nicholl to discuss the ramifications of the fall in value of our dollar. The Kiwi dollar has been in the news over the last few days for all the wrong reasons….
New Zealand is in ‘unchartered waters’ with the dual threat of a more assertive China making us more exposed economically than ever before, and the precarious challenges presented by the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Speaking in Cambridge…
A roar of excitement erupts from the audience as the house lights go down and the hall is bathed in darkness. Stage lights blaze to life, illuminating a painted backdrop of ocean, islands. The auditorium…
Maungatautari has a secure funding future if responses from candidates for both Waikato Regional and Waipā District councils are an indication. Funding should continue to protect the Sacred Mountain so future generations can enjoy it,…
The minister responsible for putting the brakes on online voting for local body elections six years ago says the digital option still comes with risk. Taupō MP Louise Upston, part of whose electorate takes in…
