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On deck for Jonah’s fishy tail

Drama productions at St Peter’s Catholic School are always a team effort and this year’s high seas extravaganza is no different – with teachers, parents and students all heavily involved, making it a real community…

Blue light gets active

Blue Light is flashing in Cambridge with plans to get young people on a national leadership voyage. The charity organisation, which has been supporting youth programmes across the country for 35 years, was established in…

Sister act on stage at Riverlea

Playbox Theatre’s Fantastic Mr Fox is a first for Nicole and Hayley Sherwin. The sisters are students at St Peter’s School and while they enjoy school productions, Playbox is on a whole different level, they…

Measuring up for The Globe

Cambridge High School drama student Hamilton Kay has been given his dream shot after winning a place in the 2023 National Shakespeare Schools Production. “I was extremely happy when I found out; it was an…

New councillor elected …… Now for the mahi

Dale-Maree Morgan is under no illusion she has a lot of work ahead of her following her election to the vacant Māori ward seat on Waipā District Council. The result was confirmed earlier this week…

Prems have a friend in Octopals

The Cambridge arm of the international ‘Octopus for a Preemie’ organisation is one of the recipients of recently distributed funds from last year’s Christmas festival. The organisation exists to ease the early days of premature…

Market seeks extended lease

Waipā residents are being asked to comment on a plan to extend the lease for the Farmers’ Market in Victoria Square, Cambridge but the organisation behind it is withholding information which could help in making…

Forty years of advice

The robust health and good reputation of Cambridge Citizens’ Advice Bureau (CAB) was celebrated last week at the organisation’s 40th anniversary event. Cambridge CAB chair Caroline Kitching told over 70 people who attended that the…

Gully plan approved

Waikato District Council will introduce a targeted rate to continue restoring and preserving the Tamahere gully network. Councillors voted last week to levy Tamahere ward ratepayers $1 a week per property over the next five…

Light show on latest grant list

Fifty one Waipā organisations have shared more than $190,000 worth of promotion and event funds and next year’s Waka Ama national sprint championships gets $15,000, the highest grant. The council’s District Promotions committee this week…

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