Cambridge High School year nine students got the message loud and clear from principal Greg Thornton at their pōwhiri last week. “Realise your potential,” he urged the 360 plus nervous looking young people sitting quietly…
Cambridge High School year nine students got the message loud and clear from principal Greg Thornton at their pōwhiri last week. “Realise your potential,” he urged the 360 plus nervous looking young people sitting quietly…
Change is in the air for 2025 at Waikato District Council as we welcomed our new chief executive this week. Craig Hobbs brings with him a strong knowledge of local government, having been chief executive…
Welcome to February. The over-long period of holiday disruption is behind us. Those who went off to improve their skin tans are now returned. Those who achieved the same result by staying at home will…
It’s been more than 23 years since champion thoroughbred racehorse Ethereal thundered down Flemington Racecourse’s final straight on November 6, 2001, streaking past Give The Slip in a thrilling finish to win the Melbourne Cup….
Cambridge BMX rider Bennett Greenough, 21, claimed the Elite Men’s title at the 2025 UCI Oceania BMX Racing Championships in Bell Block, New Plymouth last weekend. It was Greenough’s first elite race after stepping up…
Parlez-vous français? Perhaps not, but hundreds of locals now do thanks in part to a decade of classes run by a couple of women passionate about the language. February marks the start of a new…
Rod Beare thought nothing of it when there was a knock on his front door about 10.30pm. Somebody must need help, he thought, and sure enough it was a young man who said he had…
If you’ve experienced a loss visited upon you through someone breaking an agreement, you’ll know the feelings of disempowerment and betrayal. Long ago, it happened for me at this time of year. I’d been persuaded…
Woke talk Woke talk: I was somewhat perplexed to read the comments of Jo Gread, Waipā District Council Governance Manager re proposed changes to meeting dates and information. Gread is quoted as saying: “the move…
An Emergency Services vehicle (Police, Ambulance or Fire) responding under lights and sirens, means we are attending the most urgent of jobs. For police, this means that serious harm is in progress, and we need…
