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Mayor cautious about zero-rate rise

Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest has sounded a warning about the consequences of freezing rates in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic. He said his council could not be short sighted and had to consider the…

Teamwork gets the shopping done

Cambridge Resthaven’s lockdown shopping for residents’ experience is unleashing a raft of positive outcomes for both parties. Bulk shopping for residents has become the new norm at the complex’s retirement village. The start of lockdown…

Heroes from our “other” pandemic

  As a lethal form of influenza ravaged its way across New Zealand in November 1918, Cambridge nurses Linda Veale and Margaret Watt worked quickly to transform the Town Hall into an emergency hospital. On…

Once upon a lockdown…

Mila Lockett couldn’t quite understand why her friends couldn’t join her to celebrate her fourth birthday. Mila loves fairies and was going to have a fairy themed birthday party. Just as it looked like the…

Stay at home tomorrow

The Western Waikato Emergency Operations Centre (WWEOC) is reminding people to stay at home in their lockdown bubbles on Anzac Day tomorrow – and not to visit Cenotaphs to lay wreaths. It is the first…

Government media ‘favouritism’ criticised

Cambridge and Te Awamutu News publisher David Mackenzie went into bat for the country’s community newspaper industry last week. The Government has been told community newspapers should have been permitted to print and deliver –…

In the mood…

  It was while on a quiet evening stroll with fellow Cambridge Camera Club members that Derek Teague shot the photograph that won him the 2020 Cambridge Photo Competition. The moody picture of the gates…

Council Zooms online with rates relief plan

Waipā District Council will roll out a series of rates relief measures – including lower rates penalties and longer payment deadlines for penalty remissions. In a move it said was aimed at assisting district ratepayers…

Church gets back in tune

A two-year, $150,000 so-called “organ transplant” of sorts at Cambridge’s St Andrew’s Church is on hold – for now. But when normality returns, Vicar Malcolm French hopes work on the ‘key’ feature will continue and…

Where has all the flour gone?

New Zealanders at home in lockdown have upped their flour buying four-fold since the start of the Covid-19 scare. Despite constant media reports denying there is a shortage, there has not enough to go around…

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