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We’re sticking with you

Today we celebrate the third of our “lockdown” News editions with a pledge to continue to keep you informed and entertained, through thick and thin. Keep an eye out for this front page. The Cambridge…

The return of Super Ted

A Waipā couple has taken the national teddy bear hunt happening during lockdown to new heights. About four metres high to be exact. For those lucky enough to be close enough in their ‘bubble’ to…

Cricketers build on their innings

Work on a $300,000 pavilion upgrade at Cambridge Cricket Club is finally set in stone – or so far concrete. The first sod was turned for the project – about 10 years in the making…

Super (market) heroes

Pratiksha Patel is exhausted after working up to 18 hours a day through the Covid-19 crisis, but she and her husband Krishnaa are determined to continue serving their community. The couple bought Cambridge’s Red Berry…

Essentially, Pooh is just a gas

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” It’s fitting Winnie the Pooh said that because he has been exemplifying that very sentiment in an effort to brighten people’s days during…

Games delay leaves Walker in limbo

Four years ago, Cambridge BMX rider Sarah Walker had a choice to make. “Did I want to keep riding?,” the London 2012 silver medallist had to ask herself after a major crash and resulting serious…

Leaving them in his wake

One of his favourite tricks might put him in a spin, but Cambridge’s Luke Runciman is approaching his goals in wakeboarding – and now the wider world of water sports – with an entirely grounded…

A dog’s tale, river style

Man’s best friend has been reunited with, well, his best friend. Some quick thinking from those aboard the passing Camjet jet boat tour saved a dog from drowning in the Waikato River after it fell…

Gloria has bags of time

They may be called Boomerang Bags, but Cambridge’s Gloria Scott doesn’t do it because she expects anything back. “I just enjoy the creative process,” she said. Gloria has been a member of Plastic Free Cambridge…

School Centenary Delayed A Year

Celebrations to mark fact Te Miro School is 100 this year have been postponed following Government directives around efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus. The Te Miro School and District Centenary committee had…

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