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Drain the lake plan a surprise

An ambitious plan to drain Lake Te Koo Utu and refill it with water from a Maungatautari spring and cut down deciduous trees around the lake has caught Waipā District Council by surprise. The proposal…

Tests are back

Driver testing services returned to Cambridge today after a gap of seven years. Testing also resumed in Matamata. The move was welcomed by the Cambridge based owner of Brighteye Driving School  Sheryl Moffat who said…

Help available in Covid fund

A library outreach programme will continue until December with $31,000 of funding for a community librarian coming from Waipā district’s Covid recovery fund. And the council wants to hear from any community groups looking to…

Teens out at 10…

I realise I have written at some length about living with teenagers but they are the source that keeps on giving and so I shall do it again. The 18-year-old recently passed his driving test…

The world around us

I am sitting at my desk on a still Sunday afternoon listening to laughter outside accompanying the clack of croquet mallets on the adjacent lawn. All is peaceful in this quiet backwater of senior citizens….

Quiet response to a big challenge 

View Larger Topographic Map Taiea te Taiao. This is the Māori name of the Maungatautari to Pirongia Ecological Corridor Project. The principal aim of the project, led by NZ Landcare Trust and funded principally by…

Champs again – St Peters takes title 

St Peters has retained the Waikato Secondary Schools Golf Team Championship title A dozen St Peter’s golfers competed in the annual intercollegiate teams championship at the Hamilton Golf Club. The team format involved four players…

‘Third age’ uni popular 

Interest in the formation of a University of the Third Age – U3A –  Cambridge has been so strong that the group’s founder, businesswoman Carey Church, has already secured a larger venue. The initial May…

Mobile clinics for Cambridge 

Confusion over children’s immunisation status has prompted Waikato District Health Board to hold mobile clinics in Cambridge. Parents of 3-5 year olds are being urged to check their child’s status. Most when they are told…

Dealing with a ‘hidden’ need 

‘Here to help u’ has been welcomed by those among the first to use it in Cambridge. Community connector with Cambridge Community House (CCH), Francis Radloff, said CCH had jumped at the opportunity to work…

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