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Piarere roading plan approved

Waka Kotahi has the go ahead to continue planning for a roundabout to deal with a nightmare intersection. The Environment Court has approved its proposal to replace the T-intersection on State Highway 1 at Piarere…

Brown takes Museum post

3 April Update – Andrew Brown was today appointed Te Ara Wai Governance Committee chair. An earlier version of the story in print below jumped the gun and suggested he had already been appointed. The…

Bill set for Governor’s role

Cambridge’s Bill Robinson will soon step into a pivotal Rotary International role that will have been two full years in the planning. On July 1 of 2021 and 2022 respectively, Bill was named Rotary’s District…

Delay by design

When you turn on the hot tap in the kitchen in our house, you can fill up our common or garden watering can with cold water before it gets hot. That’s just over 5 litres….

When rocks fly

The day this comes out I will be in the field with PhD student Amilea Sork, looking at huge rocks that were violently thrown out of the Ngāuruhoe crater during the 1950s and 1970s eruptions….

Unheard of ‘third’ fair for cyclone relief

When St Andrew’s Church verger Ian Dunn got the go-ahead to hold a special craft fair on April 29 in support of the Cyclone Gabrielle recovery, nothing could have prepared him for the response he…

The X-factor

A mystery is what the X-Race at Lake Te Koo Utu in Cambridge was meant to be. Xrace is a mystery adventure race where parents and children aged six to 14 race together, locate and…

A weekend of two halves

Cambridge had plenty to celebrate as it cut the cake of 75 years of football last weekend – but the result of their conference league team wasn’t one. The hosts were beaten 4-1 by Claudelands…

Seventh heaven in BMX

Seven first places – including three at elite level – were highlights for the Cambridge BMX club at the national championships in Tauranga. The event attracted almost 600 riders aged from eight to over 50…

Making Cambridge great

Art and Sport were well and truly represented this weekend as Cambridge was busy with residents and visitors enjoying the very popular and exciting Autumn Festival, the Maadi Cup regatta and street parade and the…

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