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Sunday Christmas parade supported

Deputy Waipā mayor Jo Davies-Colley is backing calls to move Te Awamutu Christmas Parade back to a Sunday. “I do understand that a Saturday morning in Te Awamutu is a busy time for traders,” Davies-Colley…

Lions take pride in parade

Cambridge Christmas Parade is being organised by the Lions Club of Cambridge on Sunday December 7. The club has assumed responsibility for the parade after the closure of the town’s iSite which was formerly responsible…

Tech savvy Reid hits the ton

Despite reaching his milestone centenary last Sunday, there is very little about Reid Calder that is slowing down. He’s up early each day, hitting the iPad to catch the latest online news.  Technology is no…

Planning for the future

The early summer heat of the sun is bringing the people out into the open in Cambridge. Whether locals or visitors, the pavement edges are crammed with angled cars, the cafes are booming and no…

Community board monitoring removed

Waipā District Council strategy manager Kirsty Downey says enhancing how the council works with community boards remains a priority after a decision not to re-establish the control group monitoring the work. Councillors agreed not to…

A new team on deck

A new chapter begins, and we’re ready to go. We have marked the official establishment of the new Cambridge Community Board, a milestone for local democracy and community voice. I’m proud to be joined on…

It’s our darling Clements’ time…

Cambridge’s newest boutique hotel – once a run-down rough place that the local MP needed a police escort into – now tells a story of resilience, vision and community pride. Tourism minister Louise Upston cut…

Letters to Editor 27 November 2025

Second or third? Why does Waipa District Council in the form of Katie Mayes, Cambridge Connections Executive Director,  persist with the disingenuous and misleading phrase  “third bridge” when talking about future transport needs in Cambridge…

Councillors told to carpool

Waipā councillors and council staff have been challenged to carpool. “If you are not modelling what you’re teaching you’re doing something else,” Waipā mayor Mike Pettit told a Cambridge Connections workshop in Te Awamutu. “There’s…

Fighting against death…

An inevitable ‘appointment’ with death awaits us all. Sorry if being blunt loses you here, but it’s the truth and using euphemisms like ‘passing away’ can’t balm this reality. Throughout aeons, humanity has relentlessly searched…

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