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The great sprite and snickers mystery 

Fencourt Road is hardly Hollywood Boulevard, but it will be front and centre in two new films from one of the country’s top directors. Costa Botes, best known for his work with Peter Jackson on Lord…

Breaking ground

Ground works have begun on a mixed-use development in Leamington which will become the third of its type in Cambridge but the first on the southern side of the Waikato River. The three-storey Village at Leamington – marketed…

You read it in The News first ……

Radio New Zealand, TVNZ and various print products were wowed by a release last week from Waipā District Council which announced a live-streamed meeting had attracted a huge following. “Almost 300,000 people from throughout the…

Councillors make call on Three Waters

Waipā residents will end up subsidising other communities including neighbouring big city Hamilton under the government’s Three Waters Reform proposal, say district councillors. The News understands councillors, frustrated their communities will lose assets built up…

Buses on the hour mooted

By Blair Voorend and Mary Anne Gill A bus every hour from 6am through to 7pm between Cambridge and Hamilton could be coming as early as next year in response to an increase in patronage….

It’s dial a jab time – DHB unveils new Covid strategy

Health vaccinators will go anywhere in Waipā to protect the community from Covid-19 in a strategy unveiled by Waikato District Health Board (DHB) this week. The DHB will mobilise teams to do vaccinations at events…

December Xmas parade plans unveiled

Planners of the Cambridge Christmas Parade have announced details of this year’s event and have declared the 2021 parade theme as ‘A Sporty Christmas’. Destination Cambridge and the parade committee said last week that the theme had been chosen as a…

Opinion: Just picture this 

By Peter Carr  Two years ago this week I was in Ireland – representing the NZ National Fieldays Society at the annual Irish Plough agricultural event. This is a gathering of all things agricultural (and a few other sideshows too)…

Henry graduates with an honour 

Cambridge plumber Henry Rombouts graduated at the Apprenticeship Training Trust’s celebration ceremony held online last Friday – and collected an award. The ATT event replaced the planned in-person graduation event at Sky City Auckland. Henry works for Laser Plumbing Cambridge and qualified in plumbing and gasfitting. He was…

Avian saviour

Sixteen-year-old Emma Ward has spent four years saving sick and injured animals and says they have rescued her, too. “I was diagnosed with depression at 13 and anxiety at a fairly early stage, but my…

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