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Well and truly successful 

An award-winning food producer says Kaipaki, where she lives and runs Well & Truly Artisan Pantry, is the “best kept secret around”. Sue Loder has won the bountiful table category in the NZI Rural Women…

Short story quest starts 

Organisers of the 2022 Cambridge Autumn Festival Short Story Competition hope this year’s theme of ‘Carpe Diem’, or ‘seize the day’, will inspire writers to enter. The nationwide competition is now open. Cambridge Autumn Festival…

Altrusa helps feed the community 

Members of Altrusa International Cambridge presented a timely donation of food to Cambridge Community House (CCH) this week in acknowledgement of World Food Day on October 16. The delivery of non-perishable food to the organisation was…

Heeding the call 

Waikato DHB chief executive Kevin Snee, left, with Taupo MP Louise Upston at Cambridge Community Marae. Some of the Rotarians cheering on Super Saturday at Cambridge Family Health Pharmacy. They are, from left, Ray Milner, club…

News in brief ……

Interns join News Two Wintec journalism students – Benjamin Wilson and Ricky Lam – have joined the News team this week on an internship. Watch out for their work in coming weeks. Nyriad moves out…

Age does not weary it… 

It gets knocked down – but it gets up again. A controversial Cambridge sign warning people to be on the watch for “aged” people was in storage this week after being being put up in the wrong place. News…

Lost – and found 

As some of you may have heard, last week we were able to return a stolen training AED and CPR dummy to its owner. That is the best sort of outcome. The Cambridge owner’s Australian relatives saw a Waikato Police Facebook post seeking…

Maija backs the vax call

Maija Vance finds it impossible to understand why people are refusing to get a Covid vaccination. The former jockey, who suffered life-changing injuries in a race fall in September 2018, got her second vaccination on…

Green light ahead

A 47ha Cambridge subdivision with 212 new houses is expected to get the green light later this week from Waipā District Council. Work on the 3Ms’ development on Cambridge Road stopped in July when independent…

Cambridge reaching high vaccination numbers, centre to close

The dedicated Cambridge Community Vaccination Centre at the Cambridge Community Marae – Nga Hau E Wha is closed from today (20 October), with local providers continuing to offer vaccination services for the area. Waikato DHB’s…

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