Takena Stirling’s resignation from Waipā District Council has sparked media stories about his attendance at meetings. Read: Councillor resigns Stirling missed seven of 11 meetings since December – two of which were to represent the…
Takena Stirling’s resignation from Waipā District Council has sparked media stories about his attendance at meetings. Read: Councillor resigns Stirling missed seven of 11 meetings since December – two of which were to represent the…
Cambridge’s i-Site faces an uncertain future with the resignation of its chief executive, the loss of a major income stream and indecision about future council funding. Michelle ‘Miff’ Macdiarmid has resigned from Destination Cambridge, the…
Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan has put the appointment of mana whenua representatives on four council committees on hold. She made the call today following the resignation last week of Waipā Maori ward councillor Takena Stirling….
A lawyer suspended after apparently losing his moral compass is Takena Stirling, Waipā’s first Māori ward councillor. The Law Society posted details of the suspension on its website yesterday (Thursday 16 March). That caught Waipā…
Audit New Zealand has rapped Waipā District Council over the knuckles in its annual Management Report for approving expenses to the chief executive and mayor without the proper authority. Update Friday March 17: Some sentences…
Forty per cent of the people who attend an Owl Farm public open day at St Peter’s School in Cambridge have never been on a dairy farm in their lives. And Jo Sheridan revels in…
A talk delivered in Cambridge last week inadvertently championed ‘the teacher effect’ as much as it did its central topic of ethical investing. Carey Church generated much interest with her address to the March U3A…
Waipā residents generate around 500kg of waste each per year, about the weight of a mid-sized polar bear. But at least half of that shouldn’t end up in landfill at all and mayor Susan O’Regan…
The Boards of Watercare and the Waikato River Authority have agreed on how restoration funding from Watercare will be used to protect the awa over the next 20 years. This funding arises from a…
Canadian performers Big Johnny Blue and Tina Turley are bringing their unmistakeable ‘bluesy music with a rock n’ roll edge’ to Cambridge for the Cambridge Autumn Festival later this month. They gave The News a…
