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Feds review plan change

Waikato Federated Farmers is poring through the Environment Court’s 376-page interim decision on Waikato Regional Council’s Plan Change One. “Our team are now working through the detail to understand what additional requirements, if any, might…

Scout Tristan hones his skills

Cambridge based scout Tristan Wang spent the weekend serving others. The 14-year-old Cambridge High School pupil and senior team leader at Kirikiriroa & St Peter’s Scout Group worked alongside adult scout kaiarahi, or leaders, to…

Vandalism – who is to blame?

Counter claims of vandalism have further soured relations between Waipā District Council and one of its community boards and an independent park maintenance committee. The committee ignored council plans to replace  wooden benches dating back…

The name debate

Readers of both the Cambridge News and Te Awamutu News have responded negatively to a decision to ignore a European name for a Māori one in a new subdivision west of Cambridge. The Marsden family…

Next phase for graduates

Fifteen women who have experienced family harm have taken the first steps towards reclaiming a violence-free future through the ‘I Am Me’ pilot programme run in Cambridge earlier this year. They are the first to…

Cycling crash: driver sentenced

A road rage incident which left a Paralympian with serious injuries has resulted in a man being sentenced to 12 months of supervision, and two months of community detention. Brian David Mills, 57, of Tamahere…

MP recounts debate emotion

Deputy speaker Barbara Kuriger has revealed how emotional she felt in Parliament last week while she was sitting in the Speaker’s chair during the debate on punishments for three Te Pāti Māori members. The Taranaki-King…

A ‘declaration of intent’

The traditional wooden carving which stands guard at the new substation at Hautapu is rich with symbolism, its carver Bodie Tihoi Huitoroa-Taylor explained at its unveiling last week. The totara used weighed nearly 800 kilograms…

Sahara nails music scholarship

Sahara Stanton perches in a plastic chair in the music suite at Cambridge High School, preparing to perform her original song, Dracula, for The News. “I should have taken my nail polish off,” the Ohaupo…

Chamber a step closer to merger

Cambridge Chamber and Destination Cambridge members have been given a preview on what a merged organisation could look like. Talks are progressing and although there is no deadline, Destination Cambridge’s lease on its Town Hall…

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