Occasionally I decide to use these opinion pieces to give the local district council a nudge or a serve regarding their tired – and sometimes tiring – efforts to balance democracy with physical reality. Aka,…
Occasionally I decide to use these opinion pieces to give the local district council a nudge or a serve regarding their tired – and sometimes tiring – efforts to balance democracy with physical reality. Aka,…
Brooke Francis and Lucy Spoors get stopped in the supermarket a bit more now they’re Olympic champions – and they don’t mind at all. “The Cambridge community has been a joy to come home to,”…
The phrase to “finish well” no doubt means different things to different people. Our values and the criteria we use to determine what ‘success’ is, will shape whether we think we’re on a trajectory to…
Dean Signal reckoned he was in something of a unique position, career-wise. “I have hundreds of people underneath me, but I never receive a complaint,” he’d often say. As sexton for Cambridge’s three cemeteries, he…
Business leaders and the heavy traffic industry say Waipā District Council’s lack of consultation with them over major arterial route changes is concerning. Their comments come after the council released an independent post construction audit…
The Cambridge Connections project is on a temporary hold following a fiery Waipā District Council committee meeting. The extent of the disagreement between councillors on the project’s working group was laid bare during Tuesday’s debate…
Two Cambridge Middle School students won gold at this year’s Waikato Intermediate and Middle Schools cross country championships in Tokoroa. Mila Moore beat 48 year seven runners to win the junior girls’ race and Emily…
Lights out A power cut left northern Cambridge residents in the dark at around midnight on Saturday. The cause was a fault on one of Waipā Network’s high voltage underground cables. Bus tour A Waipā…
Reporting crime at the time it happens is something I mention regularly in this column and when speaking in our community. I place importance on it as when we have crime spikes such as overnight…
Bus tour A Waipā District Council bus tour to Huntly to visit Opportunity Shops there and get a free cup of coffee is funded by the Ministry for the Environment’s Waste Disposal Levy which must…
