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A word from Helen …

Lauriston Park resident Helen Lloyd provided one of the star turns at the St Andrews Parish gala on Monday when she came out of semi-retirement to play the organ inside the Cambridge church. A steady…

Promo strategy revealed

Waipā District Council will set up its own “one stop shop” for district promotions, events and attractions due to declining numbers at the council-funded i-Sites in Cambridge and Te Awamutu. The move to align the…

Pressure ramps up

Louise Upston’s influence in the National Party has borne fruit for her electorate with the announcement the 16km Cambridge to Piarere stretch is back on as a national road of significance. Now business leaders want…

News …. in brief

Road closure A section of Duke Street from Bryce to Dick streets as well as Lower Duke Street will close tomorrow (Thursday) until April while council teams build a new boardwalk as part of the…

Recycling – it’s all for one

The bad news is that your milk bottle tops, and millions of other blue caps, are going to landfill. The good news is that a standardised kerbside recycling programme launched across the country this week…

Open Homes

Woops, we published the wrong Open Home listings in the Cambridge News this week. Our apologies. You can download the Open Homes list here, print the list from our website below or click on the…

Santa scheme continues

Cambridge Altrusa’s inaugural December ‘Santa to a Senior’ initiative enjoyed such success that it is already firmly fixed on the club’s 2024 programme. One of the project’s organisers, club member Alison Burr, described the response…

Garlic fine, says company

Auckland based pet food company Butch has defended the use of garlic in one of its products for dogs, saying the level used presents no risk. The News reader Emile Valkenborg raised the issue before…

Chamber’s timely update

Cambridge Chamber of Commerce members are among those questioning the decision to repair the town’s clock while the district awaits a major rate increase. A tongue in cheek post from the Chamber – which asked…

Learning out in the cold

At the beginning of November Linda Mulvihill flew to Ushuaia, Argentina, boarded a ship and began a 19-day voyage to Antarctica. “It takes two days to travel from Ushuaia across the Drake Passage, which is…

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