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Rotary launches e-waste campaign

Rotary Cambridge has launched an innovative E-Waste Recycling programme that it hopes will take toxic waste out of landfills and educate people around the realities of recycling. Rotary members spent more than a year investigating…

Space: the photographic frontier

Cambridge photographer Lucy Rowden is searching for Cambridge’s secret spaces. She is working with Cambridge Museum to uncover spaces which were once seen by the community regularly – but not anymore. The Cambridge News uncovered…

Painter and potter combine

A rare exhibition featuring the work of two Cambridge-based artists – one a painter and the other a potter – will be open across two days later this month. ‘Just the Two of Us’ will…

From 9/11 to Covid: 25 years of heritage

The story of a boutique art gallery that grew from an acorn into an oak is being celebrated as Cambridge’s Heritage Gallery marks its quarter century. It was 25 years ago in early December that…

Council after walk, ride directions on the future of Cambridge’s streets

During lockdown, we all walked or cycled from A to B. Imagine if we could park up our cars long-term and transform Waipā… Posted by Waipā District Council on Monday, November 16, 2020   A $9.5…

Darkness of family violence probed in November production

Cambridge residents Georgia Pollock and Sara Young are taking part in a Hamilton-based production this month that focuses on family violence. They have been cast in ‘hush: a verbatim play about family violence’, being presented…

Canines sweep Maungatautari

More than 20 dogs used by the Department of Conservation and their handlers have gone back to school last week. The teams are vital components in conservation work and, appropriately, gathered on Sunday for a…

White ribbon events hope to combat family violence

White Ribbon Day itself, November 25, will be marked in Cambridge with a stall set up outside Cambridge PaperPlus in Victoria St.   The anti-violence initiative will continue on Saturday November 28 with a ‘Walk in…

Silver lining to warm up tips

That was the case at Cambridge High last week when Silver Fern Monica Falkner spent a morning putting 16 students through their paces in the school’s main gym. Falkner, who recently made an impressive recovery…

Rare flax planted in Waipa

Thirty-five flax plants have been replanted at Lake Ruatuna as part of a project to establish a nursery for the sought-after weaving material. The flax, from 11 different varieties, are significant to Māori weavers and…

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