“This is the cool thing about animals, they love you unconditionally and they’re always there but right now humans require them more.” “Animals are cool.” A Waipā dairy farmer has compared the Covid 19 Delta…
“This is the cool thing about animals, they love you unconditionally and they’re always there but right now humans require them more.” “Animals are cool.” A Waipā dairy farmer has compared the Covid 19 Delta…
By Peter Carr Those who have had the benefit of spare time may well have attended (as the public) meetings of the local council. Not, I hasten to add, just the Waipā Council but any…
By Peter Matthews It seems trite to moan about recycling soft plastics in Cambridge New Zealand when across the world people are dealing with such crises as the earthquake in Haiti, unprecedented rainfall and flooding…
Tauwhare Military Museum in Pukemoremore has been saved from closure thanks to an eleventh-hour lifeline thrown last week to its owner Grant Moreland. Grant is the son of the private museum’s founder Andy Moreland –…
With her irrepressible joie de vivre, boisterous curls, crazy footwear and love of practical jokes, California-born Cambridge Middle School teacher Claire Bush was “larger than life”. “She brought laughter to any place she went,” said…
A group of volunteers working in Te Awamutu and Cambridge have this year diverted 8.5 tonnes of e-waste from Waipā’s landfills. Urban Miners, a not-for-profit enterprise recycles, or diverts for reuse, domestic and business e-waste…
Business leaders are joining the call for action on a third bridge for Cambridge. Business owners were among a group which met at C & R Developments in Hautapu last week. Managing director Mike Ross…
A previously unknown pā site on a landowner’s property near other known archaeology has not held up progress on Te Awa Cycleway’s northward route. Work was stopped when the pā site was discovered. Heritage New…
Every time Ōhaupō resident Sue Davies drives to and from Hamilton for work, she’s reminded of the car crash she was involved in on the corner of SH3 and Raynes Road in Rukuhia. On Wednesday…
Waipā District councillors have recommended a reduction to their numbers, boundary changes, the scrapping of a rural ward and the retention of its two community boards. The recommendations, made at a Finance and Corporate committee…
