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Cuteness overload at Group Agricultural Day

It was quite a cute sight to see at Memorial Park on Wednesday when students from schools across Cambridge demonstrated their rural rearing skills. Students brought along a lamb or kid goat they had been…

Once in a hundred years

The haunting sound of bagpipes will ring out across Cambridge tomorrow, with solo pipers playing at the Hautapu Cemetery, St Andrew’s Church and the Cambridge Cenotaph in the early morning as part of a worldwide…

Mighty victory for local racer

The Kiwi boys competing in the Mighty 11 test over Labour Weekend have won the Trans-Tasman Trophy back from their Australian counterparts. Cambridge’s Josh Cavanagh and Joel Runciman competed in the Trans-Tasman event earlier this…

New retirement role for Houchen

Stuart Houchen is finally dipping his toe into retirement after a false start unexpectedly put him back behind the desk at Cambridge Funerals. The call asking if he’d be prepared to provide a fortnight’s cover…

Kayakers make themselves at home

Cambridge is proving to be the perfect training ground for the NZ Men’s Kayak squad since the team moved here at the start of the year. The squad of Max Brown, Taris Harker, Kurtis Imrie,…

All go at Leamington School

There was colour flying everywhere on Saturday, October 27 at the Leamington School Colour Blast. Around 200 people got their clothes redecorated at the event, turning their whites to multicolours under a barrage of coloured…

His own seat, and a mince pie

A relaxed social gathering at Lake Te Kō Utu on Sunday will be an opportunity for friends and family of colourful Cambridge resident Crispin ‘Cris’ Love, who died last year, to celebrate the installation of…

Armistice, 100 years on

A week of commemorations for Armistice got underway on Sunday, with crowds flocking to the Town Hall for a WWI art exhibition and a photographic display of the liberation of Le Quesnoy by Kiwi troops…

Leamington lads back from Euro tour

A squad of 21 members of the Leamington Rugby Sports Club have arrived home safely after a tour of Europe. The 2018 Euro Tour over September 22 – October 19 was part of a three…

CHS artist a national finalist

Congratulations to Orla Anderson-Scott who was a finalist in the National Youth Art Award exhibition, with her work titled “Hand of fate” featuring in the four-week exhibition which wrapped up last month. At 16 years…

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