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Inside the mind of Andy

Anne Wilkins has won the Cambridge Autumn Festival’s short story competition with Cracks – and today we publish it in fill. I hum as I walk to school while little cracks in the pavement try…

Andy’s tale is a winner

Anne Wilkins knows she must be doing something right after winning the Cambridge Autumn Festival Short Story competition. As she wiped away tears during a photo shoot with judges, former Waikato Times editor Venetia Sherson…

Brown takes Museum post

Andrew Brown has been appointed one of two Waipā District Council representatives to the Te Awamutu and District Museum Trust Board following the resignation of Māori ward councillor Takena Stirling. Brown joins Lou Brown while…

Down on Main Street…

Among the many events in and around Cambridge last weekend was the Main Street Carnival and Art Market. Mary Anne Gill was there to soak up the atmosphere.    

Sylvie’s photo stacked up

When Sylvie Davies-Colley saw her brother Lansley stacking wood they had found on the roadside after Cyclone Gabrielle, she knew it would make a cracking photograph. The 9-year-old Cambridge Primary School student won the youth…

Wood backs cycleways

The latest $10.4 million investment in safer Waipā walking and cycling pathways is money well spent, says Transport minister Michael Wood. Speaking exclusively to The News at a celebration for the completion of a 65-kilometre…

The News ….. in brief

Safe to cross St Peter’s Catholic School road patrollers had their twice-yearly training session in Cambridge recently with school community officer senior constable Brenton Irwin. Teacher Susie McCreery supervised the training on the Anzac Street…

Water to get the treatment

Contracts worth $86 million – a record for the Waipā District Council – have been announced for a solar-powered wastewater treatment plant in Cambridge. Work on a three-year $100 million project is expected to start…

It’s food for thought

Waipā councillors were given a vivid illustration today of the rubbish residents put out for collection which is organic waste. They were served up for morning tea an example of largely food items rubbish contractors…

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