After years of operating out of private garage spaces, members of the Greater Waikato Railway Modellers (GWR) have a new home. They moved into the old Leamington Bowling Club building last November, rapidly filling the…
After years of operating out of private garage spaces, members of the Greater Waikato Railway Modellers (GWR) have a new home. They moved into the old Leamington Bowling Club building last November, rapidly filling the…
Blind Low Vision NZ is looking for collectors for its annual appeal next month. The search is on to find volunteers to hit the streets and collect money for the Blind Low Vision NZ (formerly…
A parish which has been dormant for decades will be active again on Sunday. The Rātana movement, described as a church and pan-iwi political movement, was founded by Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana in early 20th-century and…
Overnight hallucinations, 250,000 steps and 165 tough kilometres; that, and much more, sums up Allysia Kraakman’s Tarawera Ultramarathon experience earlier this month. Talking through the February 13-14 event over coffee, she reckoned it was a…
The appointment of four iwi representatives – Te Kanohi – to enable one to have voting rights on each of Waipā District Council’s standing committees – appears to be working well. A poll of councillors…
Janie Taylor still remembers her first day at Te Miro School in the 1970s. “We had a really stripy carpet – that’s such a vivid memory because I guess we spent a lot of time…
Eradication of pests at a Waipā lake has been so successful a new problem has arisen – in the form of pest birds. Hundreds of thousands of starlings and sparrows roost in the pest fenced…
An audience of over 300 gathered on Cambridge’s Village Square on a balmy Sunday afternoon to enjoy the town’s first Proms Concert. And patrons can expect it to become a regular on the Waipā calendar….
Set in three leafy hectares in the tranquil Waikato countryside, Ōhaupō TreeChurch and Gardens is a far cry from the fast-paced corporate world Bev and Chris Gatenby once inhabited. But after taking stock of…
Public input is being sought over a proposed $8 billion investment in Waikato’s land transport system. The Regional Transport Committee plan sets out how the region’s land transport system will be developed over the next…
