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Reds set for new Northern League season

Cambridge Football Club’s Reds team are ready for their 2019 Northern League season after completing their pre-season campaign with a double header at Tauranga City United. The Reds headed over the Kaimai Ranges for their…

Cambridge Autumn Festival all-go

The Cambridge Autumn Festival is in full swing this week. Activities started on Friday with the Cambridge Can Dance event inside the Cambridge Town Hall, followed by the Main Street Carnival on Sunday where hundreds…

Maadi Cup on now

Over two thousand teenage athletes are racing across Lake Karapiro this week in the national secondary schools rowing championships, more famously known as Maadi Cup. A record 131 schools totalling 2,166 rowers are entered in…

What Now is what’s next for Sam

Sam Webb is living the dream after signing up as a junior reporter for the popular television programme What Now. The 12-year-old Cambridge resident, a sports and rugby fanatic, has already completed one report for…

Paddlers heading for world stage

Performance on the water for members of the NZ Men’s Kayak squad has improved tenfold since the canoe racing team moved to Cambridge at the start of last year. Now with their training base at…

Churches stand with New Zealand’s Muslim community

  In the wake of the March 15 terror attacks in Christchurch, Cambridge’s religious leaders have called on people to respect the common humanity of all. Speaking almost as one, they denounced the bigotry and…

Garden festival funds distributed

Most of the almost $30,000 raised through last year’s Rotary Cambridge Garden Festival was presented to two of the three charities earlier this month. The inaugural event held last November saw more than 1000 tickets…

Closure coming to Gaslight Theatre

If you’ve seen signs around town reading, “Gaslight Theatre: CLOSURE” – rest assured the local theatre is still alive and well. Closure is the name of the next show to hit the local stage, kicking…

Whistle-stop meeting talks education reforms

National MP and education spokesperson Nikki Kaye spoke to Cambridge residents this week about her concerns over too speedy a timeline around proposals for what she described as the biggest education shake-up in 30 years….

Leamington fundraiser for Freshy

The Leamington Rugby Sports Club is putting on a special fundraiser for one of their players who was involved in a near-fatal traffic collision towards the end of last year. Matt Kennedy, or “Freshy” to…

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