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Massive medal haul from Nationals

A team of 27 swimmers from the St Peter’s Swim Club brought home fantastic results from the 2018 New Zealand Short Course Championships – so good that open division swimmers Paige Flynn and Vanessa Ouwerhand…

Plastic Bags kicked to touch

Plastic Bags were pretty much shunned in Cambridge last Saturday, with the town getting behind an initiative to veto the environmental pest for the day. Members of sewing collective Plastic Bag Free Cambridge distributed around…

50 squash players battle for Calcutta Cup

Cambridge Racquets Club ran the second annual Calcutta Cup squash competition earlier this month. Ultimately it was Cambridge’s Gerard Whittaker who claimed the Calcutta Cup over Te Awamutu’s Wade Bell after a very a hard-fought…

Blackadder coming to Gaslight

The Cambridge Repertory Society is commemorating 100 years since the end of World War I with an amateur stage adaptation of the hit BBC comedy, Blackadder Goes Forth. Playing over November 10 – 24 at…

Report signals need for change

A lengthy report released into the culture and actions of Cycling New Zealand (CNZ) and High-Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ), based at the Avantidrome, was released last Monday. The independent report by former Solicitor General…

Cyclists contest Oceania Champs

Five local cyclists competed in the Oceania Championships in Adelaide last week, with up-and-coming young cyclists Mya Anderson, Reuben Webster and Patrick Clancy joining Rushlee Buchanan and Ellesse Andrews on the 40-strong New Zealand squad….

Riders will be tested

By Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com Riders will need a good dirt bike, insane riding skills and a fair amount of luck at the third annual running of the Husqvarna Hard Adventure Enduro competition this Labour Weekend….

Cranes over Cambridge

Some of New Zealand’s biggest cranes have been operating in town to install the brand new wastewater pipe bridge. Cambridge wastewater from houses north of the Waikato River is piped across to the Waipā District…

More than a Game launched

Sports charity The Waterboy’s coffee table book More than a Game had its official launch at Paper Plus in Cambridge this month, seeing more than 70 of the organisation’s supporters get together to celebrate. The…

Band’s departure date nearly here

Esteemed Canterbury musician Dwayne Bloomfield was here last weekend for the Cambridge Brass Band’s final full practice before leaving for France. The Cambridge Auxilliary Band, which includes 17 players under age 18 together with some…

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