In the 1970s at the South Waikato News in Tokoroa, Brian Burmester was a leading light in the New Zealand Community Newspaper Association of which Good Local Media owner David Mackenzie is now president. Burmester…
In the 1970s at the South Waikato News in Tokoroa, Brian Burmester was a leading light in the New Zealand Community Newspaper Association of which Good Local Media owner David Mackenzie is now president. Burmester…
A new piece of interactive technology designed with diversional therapy and loads of enjoyment in mind is delighting residents at Cambridge Resthaven’s two care centres. The award-winning Omi Vista mobile interactive system has been in…
A newspaper article last week said Finance Minister Nicola Willis was looking closely at a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) titled ‘Revamping Competition in NZ”. I took a look…
When Cambridge Antiques’ all-rounder Alan Hayward opened the bowling for his side in club cricket on Sunday he was, at 70, possibly the oldest player in the country to do so. Hayward’s off spinners look…
Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Our ‘five senses’ comprise such a wonderful gift equipping our nervous system with information to process, enabling us to perceive things about the world around us. When damage or…
Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan and chief executive Steph O’Sullivan attended the World Business Forum’s two-day conference in Sydney, Australia last week. Organised by World of Business Ideas (WOBI) in major cities across the globe, the…
Grey Ormsby is buzzing because he did not listen to his father. A quarter of a century after Waitomo Group founder Desmond Ormsby advised his son Grey to exit the fuel supply industry the company…
Grey Street in Cambridge has now been split in two following the creation of a cul-de-sac at its northern intersection with Hamilton Road. Council contractors were on site last week to close up the road…
The rural economy – and potentially its major service towns – is about to get a shot in the arm. The region’s dairy farmers will receive an extra $65 million if Fonterra delivers on its…
With summer fast approaching, it is time to start thinking about water safety. Waipā is lucky to have the Waikato River and lakes on our doorstep and to be within easy driving distance of beaches….
