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Tamahere rate plan

Tamahere ratepayers being asked to consider paying an annual nature rate have a couple of days left to respond. Submissions on a plan which would levy ratepayers $1 a week close on Sunday. The targeted…

Hail Mary – a woman of controversy

Mary Teresa Murphy was an Irish woman who took the lead in her own business affairs, dealt directly with men and did not categorise herself as anyone’s victim, as Karen Payne from the Cambridge Museum…

Tales from the passed

A group of about 30 people attended the Hautapu Cemetery tour on Sunday run by Cambridge Museum and featuring historian and author Lyn Williams. The Dead Tell Tales event was such a success, the museum…

Ken – a man of firm opinion

Newly-minted centenarian Ken Hanlon is just about as good a plug for clean living as you could find. The Resthaven Cambridge resident turned 100 this month, and while perhaps less nimble on his feet than…

A nuclear New Zealand

Nuclear physicist Dr Gavin Wallace describes some approaches to nuclear power as ‘irrational’ and says the radiation that surrounds us most of the time is nowhere near as harmful as many think it is. Speaking…

War’s impact recounted

Cambridge Resthaven residents marked Anzac Day on Monday with a service at their village centre in Vogel St. The service was conducted by Cambridge RSA’s Brigadier Jon Broadley MBE, and was attended by several men…

Church full for Anzac service

About 20 motorcyclists and their partners joined residents, RSA members and the clergy at Pukeatua War Memorial Church on Sunday for the 2023 Anzac memorial service. The church is one of just two in New…

Zero rubbish – it’s all DIY

Over 9000 students, three rubbish bins It is hard enough as a parent to get your child to recycle, well try over 9000 secondary school students to do it over a week’s long rowing competition….

Coming up roses

Rose Town is likely to remain the brand name for Te Awamutu after 60 per cent of the people surveyed said it was still a relevant tag line for the town. But the ‘Who are…

French connection

A delegation from Waipā was in Auckland this week to hear more about new links with Cambridge’s sister city Le Quesnoy. Wētā Workshop will open an exhibition in the town which was liberated at the…

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