Each fortnight I am driven to sit at my computer and settle on a suitable subject for this opinion piece. Sometimes it is obvious – but on other occasions I must dig deep to emerge…
Each fortnight I am driven to sit at my computer and settle on a suitable subject for this opinion piece. Sometimes it is obvious – but on other occasions I must dig deep to emerge…
Estimating crowd numbers can be a fraught exercise unless you’re an expert like Mighty River Domain site manager Liz Stolwyk. Finals day for the Maadi Regatta on Saturday she put the numbers on the site…
As I write, I’m on day four of a 10 day trip in Nepal. Landing in Kathmandu brought back memories of my last visit in 2019. In the surging sea of bustling humanity struggling to…
Takitini is the new economic development brand for Waikato District Council. It was launched recently and symbolises the district’s connection to navigating waka (canoe) and the lifeforce of the Waikato and Waipā rivers. They are…
New Zealand is small enough to give each of us almost unmatched access to decision-makers at national and local level compared with most western nations. We angst about voter turnout, yet we are still one…
Gold clams have found their way north to Hamilton and Tuakau but there is no way they’re heading south with any rowing boats after the Maadi Cup regatta. Close to 1000 boats and 80 trailers…
A street carnival second-to-none. That’s the view of Cambridge Autumn Festival main street carnival organisers on the back of Sunday’s four-hour event. Musicians, dancers and tables selling a variety of wares set up through the…
When the big square bales dropped off the forks, they knocked the land-girl flat. She hadn’t heard him coming. Plugged into her Walkman, broad back turned to him, shovelling out years of an old leak…
She’s done it again. Leamington resident Jan Mackenzie took out the Cambridge Autumn Festival short story first prize with her A little less of lonely. Read: A Little Less of Lonely “Yes, that’s right, that’s…
Next Wednesday at 10am, Cambridge Police will be hosting a “Coffee with a Cop” event in conjunction with Daydream Espresso on the corner of Alpha and Victoria streets, Cambridge. Coffee with a Cop is a…
