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Building a champion

24 April 2025 The original article has been changed. Timmo’s ITM is still owned and operated by Clayton and Nicky Timmo and not Jack Mathis’ brother. Timmo’s joined ITM in 2004 and after nearly 40…

One, two and now there’s three ….

Author and singer/songwriter Holly Christina was part of the recent Cambridge Autumn Festival lineup with a talk at the library on the publication of the third novel in her ‘Harp and the Lyre’ trilogy. Holly…

Game on for Neil

Duck hunters will be out in force, on boats, in maimais, on rivers or beside ponds next month as the crack of shotguns signals the start of game bird season. Among those intent to bag…

‘Mullet’ Fieldays a success

More punters visited Fieldays last year and spent more money on products and services, according to the University of Waikato economic impact report. The four-day National Agricultural Fieldays attracted 106,000 people through the gates at…

Jack’s grit applauded

When Jack Middlemiss, a 10-year-old from Cambridge, spotted a boy struggling in the surf shortly before Christmas, his first thought was to help him. “I saw him struggling and knew I had to do something,…

Festival cash handed out

Twenty-one charitable organisations and groups operating throughout the Waikato area have received funding from last year’s Cambridge Christmas Festival. A total of $33,511,67 was given out, with varying amounts going to each of the recipient…

Keir wants mayor’s job

He’s opted out of another term as a ward councillor – and even thought about resigning – but Mike Keir now wants the Waikato district mayoral chains. Jacqui Church has held them for the last…

Lara to the rescue

When Jeff Woolford broke a wrist after going over the handlebars of his farm bike last year, his partner Lara Sutton stepped into his gumboots. “I would not have survived without her,” Woolford said. “It’s…

Peak time rush

New Zealand Transport Agency says work on the northbound lane from Victoria Rd interchange in Cambridge to Tamahere proved the most challenging in terms of traffic management on Waikato Expressway ever. NZTA mitigated it through…

News in brief

What a whopper Fine weather resulted in a good entry for the recent Lake Arapuni fishing competition and a number of trout weight in with 88 entries, 26 being juniors and 84 trout weighed in….

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