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Questions, questions …..

Six Waipā residents have put in 15 per cent of the 434 official information requests to the council in the last year, taking up more than eight weeks’ staff time. The most prolific requester, with…

Matteo has the write stuff

Matteo Di Maio’s dazzling intellect has already won him many admirers in the world of journalism. It also won him Cambridge High School’s coveted dux award last week. It’s a big call, labelling someone a…

Fresh fields for football

A $900,000 project to provide two more year-round pitches starts next week at the home of Cambridge football. The work will involve two fields to the north of the existing playing fields outside the northern…

It’s a family affair…

David Butcher and sons Zachary and Benjamin created history at the New Zealand Trotting Cup meeting in Christchurch yesterday, but it wasn’t for having prize-winning drives. Cambridge-based David, 58, has been involved as a driver…

Our women in politics

Waikato’s female local body leaders have committed to reviving the Women in Politics movement buoyed by their performances in the recent elections. Hamilton deputy mayor Angela O’Leary will coordinate the group which was popular when…

New leaders for trust

Waipā Networks Trust has appointed Sarah Matthews as its new chairperson, the first woman to lead the trust. David McLean was chosen as the trust’s deputy chairperson. Matthews, a chartered accountant with Ruapehu District Council,…

Why I like select committees 

The mid-term federal elections taking place in the USA during November bring to mind the use – or perhaps misuse – of bicameral parliaments. That is where there are two houses, often described as upper…

Crime, business, transport 

Chamber’s targets outlined If Susan O’Regan was expecting a charmed ride at her first Cambridge Chamber of Commerce ‘Meet the Mayor’ function, it took all of two minutes for chief executive Kelly Bouzaid to disavow…

Cambridge cows star on screen

When award-winning documentary film director Costa Botes asked Andrew Johnstone if he could film him and his cows in Cambridge, Johnstone readily agreed thinking nothing more about it. Two years on, as he looks at…

Were you there in ’72?

Cambridge Resthaven is poised to celebrate its half century later this month, with events planned for November 25 and 26. The commemorations celebrate the opening on November 25, 1972, of the Cambridge Resthaven community-owned rest…

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