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Athletes bring home the medals

Cambridge athletes have won 18 medals at the annual Zespri AIMS Games in Tauranga. Australasia’s largest junior sporting event was held from September 7-13 this year, attracting 12,500 competitors from 397 schools. St Peter’s Cambridge…

Tourists spend more, stay less

Shorter stays with higher spending per visitor. That’s the summary of both domestic and international trends in the Waikato for the financial year ended June 30, Hamilton and Waikato Tourism general manager Nicola Greenwell told…

The importance of records

One hundred and sixty years ago, in an inglorious and bloody land grab, the (then) British armed forces started a southwards drive at Pokeno. This was to create a land grab from the Māori owners…

Band turns on a treat

Usually at this time of year the Cambridge Brass Band would be hard at work rehearsing for the annual Waikato Bay of Plenty regional brass band competition. Last year they hosted the event and collected…

Smoothing the way for Menz Shed

More than 50 Cambridge Community Menz Shed members are restoring a former dairy factory – which they will eventually call home. That building on the corner of Lamb and Carlyle streets in Leamington was built…

When the ground moves

Last week I discussed our tectonic plates and the Hikurangi Subduction Zone (HSZ). It’s important to understand these processes and not just as a geologist. If you’re a Marvel movie fan, to quote Peter Quill…

The 1080 conundrum

We have some incredible birds in New Zealand. Anyone who’s driven through the South Island has probably encountered the kea (our alpine clown) and if you’ve been lucky enough to go to Stewart Island, you’ve…

Looking for a water site

The Public Works Act may be enforced to find land for a new Karāpiro reservoir and pumpstation. Water Services manager Martin Mould told Waipā council’s Service Delivery committee this week the council had identified land…

Meat and greet at the movies

Matt Hicks has two newborn babies – Thomas who he left at home with wife Sarah and big sister Madeline, 2½, – and the movie Home Kills, which premiered in Waipā last week. The screenings…

Riding for respect

The sight of 16 horses and their riders trotting through Cambridge township on Saturday brought back memories for horseman Stewart Dromgool. Daughter Hope Spooner gave him the pooper scooper so the horses she brought together…

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