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Trailblazing Kiwi jockey and one of Cambridge’s honoured daughters, Linda Jones, has provided a massive boost to Cambridge’s Riding for the Disabled (RDA) through her support of a new trust. The launch of the Linda…

Happy last week of term two! I have mentioned that Cambridge Community Patrol are our extra eyes and ears. Our frontline team want to say thanks for some great assistance from their patrollers that occurred…

Cambridge’s High Level Victoria Bridge is to have a $2.6 million facelift for the first time in more than 20 years. Work is expected to start in September and Waipā District Council transportation manager Bryan…

A general review of housing in the district has been delayed by six months because of a heavy workload at Waipā District Council. Known internally as Draft Plan Change 21, the scope of work includes…

Waipā’s population has cracked 60,000 for the first time in its 33-year history, up from 48,200 a decade ago. But whether that growth continues depends on what council policy advisor David Totman calls a “rogue…

Waipā District Council has held a series of behind closed doors meetings and interviews to discuss the future role of community boards. The talkfest between council staff, councillors and community stakeholders comes only a week…

Cambridge centreback Maria Cameron intercepts a through ball during Cambridge’s 3-0 home win over Ngāruawahia in a Waikato women’s first division match last weekend. Cambridge, fourth equal on the points tables, travels to Melville on…

Every dentist appointment and family gathering; every awkwardly silent moment that to everyone but me begs for Smalltalk seems to herald the arrival of the same question these last few months: ‘so, what are you…

There are journalists and there are reporters. And there are reporters masquerading as journalists. Sadly, television in this country has a preponderance of the latter. And there are invited opinion writers like me who have…