A funding application has been lodged to kickstart a significant refurbishment project at Taylor Made Spaces. The long-term project will take place over three stages, with the first to start in late January – assuming…
A funding application has been lodged to kickstart a significant refurbishment project at Taylor Made Spaces. The long-term project will take place over three stages, with the first to start in late January – assuming…
St John’s Anglican Parish in Te Awamutu has confirmed an “awfully difficult” decision. The News revealed last month that historic stained-glass windows at both of Waikato’s only category one historic buildings – part of the…
Reporter Mary Anne Gill was rushing to another job and couldn’t stop to ask this man what he was doing on Victoria Square last week. The man seemed to be using a metal detector and…
Installing a temporary pedestrian and cycle path along Cambridge Road to the Velodrome took contractors longer than anticipated and put the urbanisation project weeks behind schedule. Signs for the Cambridge Road urbanisation project show a…
Refurbishing old buildings can sometimes come with surprises and that is what has happened at the historic Cambridge Court House, now home to the Cambridge Museum. Waipā District Council property manager David Varcoe said while…
“It makes absolutely no sense to be bringing the age down two years… young adults wouldn’t have a clue who they would be voting for and wouldn’t understand the true concept of it all.” “People…
Stories abound of how a metal name plate or a coin in a wallet have saved the lives of soldiers. On July 31, 1917, Arthur Maddox Major’s wallet was a simple leather bifold. If offered…
A new ‘no parking on berms’ section in the draft Public Places Bylaw attracted most interest from submitters to Waipā District Council’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee this week. Opinions were mixed with one saying…
Fourteen groups took part in the annual Te Oko Horoi festival at the Don Rowlands centre, Lake Karāpiro last Friday. The event was organised by Te Hunga Taikaakaa, a Māori student leadership group at Cambridge…
An ongoing dispute between an Ōhaupō lifestyler and a kiwifruit grower has escalated with the grower adding vertical black screens to the year-old six metre high wooden piles in Parallel Road despite claims it is…
