Firstly today, you will have seen in the news that Waikato has been hit by a burglary and ram raid crime spree. Cambridge was not exempt. With two retail burglaries in the last two weeks,…
Firstly today, you will have seen in the news that Waikato has been hit by a burglary and ram raid crime spree. Cambridge was not exempt. With two retail burglaries in the last two weeks,…
Breaking News: 3 November midday 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…
New technology which makes taking books out easier for library members is about to be introduced in Waipā. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to identify and track tags attached to objects. They have been…
The News ran an article in September headlined Fluoride call still a mystery. I’m not sure why The News is still finding the fluoride “call” a mystery. Perhaps they’re not listening to and reporting facts…
Hedley Edwards jokingly refers to it as a weapon. It’s the Case IH tractor he sold for Giltrap Agrizone Cambridge in August last year to Jeff Weake. But a couple of months later Edwards was…
Pamela Storey is under no illusion she’s got a tough road ahead of her as Waikato Regional Council chair. “I understand fully how big this role is,” she told The News this week. It was…
The next three years will bring economic challenges and once in a lifetime legislative reform which by its very nature will bring uncertainty, debate and trials, says Waipā’s first female mayor Susan O’Regan. Speaking at…
Karāpiro School principal Tina-Maree Thatcher believes Waka Kotahi has listened to concerns spelled out in a 1000-plus word letter. In June she told the agency the school, on the intersection of State Highway 1 and…
Story boards telling the story of Cambridge’s French connection will stay up until February. The signboards, made for the commemoration of 100 years since the liberation of Le Quesnoy in 1918, were originally used in…
“You need to walk into the tower and have a feeling that you are walking into magic.” That, says Susan Hague is how you will know if you are a bell ringer. The Cambridge bell…
