Award-winning scientist and founder of Hill Laboratories, Dr Roger Hill, may have taken on a test too far when trying to convince Cambridge University of the Third Age (U3A) members that analytical chemistry was riveting…
Award-winning scientist and founder of Hill Laboratories, Dr Roger Hill, may have taken on a test too far when trying to convince Cambridge University of the Third Age (U3A) members that analytical chemistry was riveting…
Double decker electric buses will operate from Leamington and Kihikihi through to Hamilton and back from January 1. The news was in a report tabled by Waikato Regional Council’s public transport planner Katherine Simpson to…
Cambridge’s sister city relationships with Le Quesnoy and Bihoro are to be rekindled following a self-imposed Covid lull. Community board chair Jo Davies-Colley and Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan head to France next month for the…
Fewer high school subjects and wearing school uniforms are just a couple of life variations our latest Rotary exchange student Marie Witzel is adjusting to. The 15-year-old from Graz in Austria arrived in New Zealand…
A plan to remove Leamington Domain’s skating rink and build a covered multi-purpose court nearer the croquet green was presented to Waipā District Council’s Service Delivery committee this week. Reserves planner Bonnie Lewis unveiled the…
Myles Prebble was at home “doing nothing” during the Covid lockdown, so he decided to make a ukulele from resources in his shed. Fast forward to late last month and he was behind a considerably…
Waipā District Council says it has gone above and beyond to service the needs of its tenants. The council was responding to a story in last week’s Cambridge News where tenants suggested there has been…
A Day for the Animals It was as if they knew the congregation was singing about them, so the 22 dogs, a cockatiel and one gecko maintained a dignified silence. “All things bright and beautiful,…
Government authorities took their eyes off the ball when they allowed single use vapes into the country, a leading e-waste operator says. Award winning Waipā-based Urban Miners has saved tonnes of e-waste from landfill in…
Recycling contractors find it challenging to identify and address the risk of single use vapes at the bin collection stage, Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan has revealed. The vapes are instead being picked up on the…
