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Covid-19 — Where to get tested

Covid testing continued in the region this week including at a new pop-up site setting up in Piopio, the Waikato District Health board announced on its website. Testing facilities are for people who are symptomatic…

The house that Jack built

It all started with the leaves of the cypress plant. The twisting branches of the Bonsai tree offered form. And the Tensegrity sculpture, a kind of optical illusion that seems to defy gravity itself, was…

Educating about asthma

The growing need for people to better manage their asthma is behind a move by Asthma Waikato to extend its range of effectiveness in 2021. The three-person team operating from Hamilton plans to broaden its…

Museum shines light on brigade stories

A lucky perk born out of 2020’s lockdown for Cambridge Museum administrator Karen Payne has become the bedrock of a new exhibition focusing on the history of the town’s volunteer fire brigade. Last year’s lockdown…

Bureau looks for volunteers

Few things in life demand little yet give a lot back – volunteering with the Citizens Advice Bureau might just be one of them. The Cambridge CAB team wants to boost its numbers of volunteers…

Pop-up store helps youngsters

Three Cambridge women – two of them raising their own grandchildren – are opening a pop-up store in their town this week to raise funds for Linda Roil’s Kids in Need Waikato. The outlet will…

Chairman backs trust grant for rural support

Waikato Regional Council leader Russ Rimmington says his decision to force through a $50,000 a year grant to the Rural Support Trust was right. Mr Rimmington used his casting vote to push the proposal through….

Streets for the people launches next week

The roll out of an ambitious plan to remake Cambridge’s streets for the people – which includes a pop-up cycleway, improvements to intersections and painted dots on the road – will start next week. The…

Fonterra defends its ‘ghost-farms’

Fonterra has been accused of creating ghost farms – including one in Waipā where nitrate-heavy water is dumped. Buxton Farm has been used to soak up waste water from the nearby Hautapu dairy plant since…

Opinion: Five seconds too much to ask?

By Peter Carr The sad death a few days ago of Sir Tom Moore ended a remarkable event. This deep-thinking and caring man, who had been on earth 100 years portrayed a selfless dedication to…

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