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Business as usual – again

It might have been, in Kelly Bouzaid’s words, a “tumultuous year” but the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce finished it financially healthy and committed to advocacy. In her chief executive’s report to the 34th annual meeting…

Hit the Target

A community newspaper advertising campaign calling for registered and enrolled nurses and midwives keen to return to work at Waikato, Thames, Te Kūiti, Taumarunui or Tokoroa hospitals has hit the target. The News understands within…

Mama …. Mia

She is not even three days old yet, but already Mia MacKay has created history. Cambridge Community Board member Alana MacKay and husband Phil welcomed their first child, a daughter Mia Christina McCathie MacKay, born…

‘Born to teach’ Kathy says farewell

Kathy Miller has been a teacher for 50 years and as she contemplates life away from the classroom, she keeps coming back to the profession that was always more than a job for her. “I…

$9.23c – the cost of a vote

Waipā ratepayers paid a Christchurch company $9.23c for every vote cast in the recent local body elections. The $145,000 bill from ElectionNZ to run the election netted 15,703 votes for a 39.65 per cent return….

Is this the magic pellet? 

A $15.6 million project being developed at Waikato University promises to slash methane emissions on farms. Waikato company Ruminant BioTech plans to develop a commercially viable bolus in the next three years. Chief Executive George…

GG is a new gee gees fan 

The New Zealand thoroughbred breeding industry has gained a new fan following the visit by Governor General Cindy Kiro to two of the country’s leading stud farms last week. An invitation was extended by the…

Cambridge girl from beginning to end 

Judy Homewood: 30.05.1944 – 23.11.2022 Judy Homewood, who died in Waikato Hospital on November 23, was a Cambridge woman through and through. Her life played out in full here.  She was fifth generation Cambridge;  it…

We’ll keep going private 

Workshops in Cambridge have established the town’s reliance on private vehicles is likely to grow unless other transport options are made available. The engagement, part of the Cambridge Connections Business Case preparation, agreed on the…

Land bought for sport

Waipā District Council has bought 6.6ha of land for millions of dollars in Cambridge to be used for sport and recreation. It comes on the back of an acknowledgement that the town’s winter sport players…

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