We are now in election mode – welcome to the season where candidates put up their signs, come looking for your votes by door knocking and seek out photo opportunities. Elections give residents a vital…
We are now in election mode – welcome to the season where candidates put up their signs, come looking for your votes by door knocking and seek out photo opportunities. Elections give residents a vital…
When Dawn Ivil died in 2017, her family honoured her wishes and interred her ashes in Leamington Cemetery’s natural burial section. Natural burials in Waipā are only available at Leamington but recent feedback, following revelations…
Cambridge Library turned 150 last week but staff were too busy to make a fuss – other than cut a birthday cake – as they were issuing books and signing up new members. The library…
Cambridge youth MPs Meghana Gaddam and Sophia Goodrich travelled to the Beehive this week for New Zealand’s 10th youth parliament. Gaddam represented Waikato MP Tim van de Molen, and Goodrich represented Taupō MP Louise Upston….
People on the Māori roll for general elections have been automatically switched to Māori ward rolls for October’s local body elections. But no one has thought to actually tell them. The decision impacts on 35…
It is election year – of the local kind. Like it or not we will all be bombarded with pamphlets, emails, door knockers – all of them wannabees driven to be seen at the large…
Rev Canon Adrian Gover: 14.01.1936 – 03.07.2022 Rev Adrian Gover was last week described as a man who brought both ‘mana and aroha’ into the priesthood. Those words were expressed at Adrian’s funeral at St…
Softball international Gaye Bezzant is to become the 41st inductee into Cambridge’s Sports Walk of Fame. The announcement was made this week – at the same time six inductees were announced for Te Awamutu’s Walk…
Bex Fraser says “coming out” might be easier these days, but there’s still plenty of people who worry about reactions from family, friends or workmates. “I came out as bisexual and non-binary in the Waikato…
Imagine living on a wild and windy bird sanctuary in New Zealand. Cambridge author Libby Kirkby-McLeod did too, so she wrote about it putting Eugene, his brother Miles and his parents on the island for…
