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Eight Hautapu players on Mitre 10 Cup team

Waikato’s Mitre 10 Cup team will play its first game of the 11-week competition this weekend against Manawatu. Announced last week, the squad includes Hautapu brothers Luke and Mitch Jacobson who both made the team…

Cambridge trio takes on TEDx

Cambridge is punching above its weight at next month’s TEDxRuakura talk in Hamilton, with locals making up 30 per cent of the speakers. Thomas Nabbs, Jacqui Barrett and Franny McInnes will be taking to the…

Battle of the Bridge off, for now

A raft of injuries to the senior rugby players along with increasing work and family commitments has seen the cancellation of this year’s Battle of the Bridge, the annual grudge match between Leamington and Hautapu…

Dr Libby has lowdown on hormones

Dr Libby Weaver is coming to Hamilton next week, and Cambridge News has two double passes to give away. Ahead of her visit, Claire Castle asked Dr Libby a few questions about life, aging and…

Teachers say ‘enough’

Cambridge primary and middle school teachers and principals took to the streets on Wednesday, part of a nationwide day of industrial action – the first time in 24 years, and just the third time in…

Community Careers Expo a hit

Students, teachers, parents and people from all walks of life strolled around the Cambridge Community Careers Expo held at the local raceway on August 8, checking out a huge range of career options and information…

Expressway shaping up

Cambridge people travelling to Hamilton can’t miss all the works happening around the Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway at Tamahere. This is where Hamilton and the completed Cambridge sections join at the Southern Interchange….

Plastic free winner

Congratulations to the winner of our Plastic Free July competition, Myra Dost, who suggests totally refusing to use plastic bags, even as rubbish bin liners. “All bins are made out of plastic, they do not…

Big winner in performing arts

St Peter’s student Jack Dams has brought home a stack of trophies from the 2018 Tauranga Festival of Performing Arts competition held during the school holidays. The modest Year 9 student said it was fun…

BMX boys back with Aus titles

Two of Cambridge’s top BMX riders have returned home from the Australian National Series with good reason to smile. Tasman Wakelin and Bennett Greenough competed in three rounds of the event with enough race wins…

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