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St Peter’s principal farewelled

Anita Asumadu’s three-and-a-half year tenure as principal at St Peter’s Catholic School has ended. Having succeeded in elevating achievement among students and enriching staff engagement, she is headed now for seemingly quieter pastures in which…

Pathway project almost done

The end is nigh for the $10.2 million Cambridge Pathway, and it can’t come soon enough for two polarised groups. If graffiti on a Waipā District Council sign outside the Gaslight Theatre is to be…

Kirwan offers tools to cope

Mental health advocate and former All Black John Kirwan spoke about the day he visited a farm and admired the cracking view. All the farmer could see was debt and bad weather. Mary Anne Gill…

Call to save water tower

James Casey says he is prepared to do all he can to save a “lovely piece of history” but does not have the expertise to lead a campaign. The Whitehall sheep and beef farmer hopes…

Another milestone reached

Magnus Adlam is under no illusion as he watches a truck and trailer unit reverse down the Karāpiro Dam road from the spillway carpark. “That should sort the men out from the boys,” he says…

The rubber roundabout

13 July 2pm *Changed copy below to a new pedestrian crossing in Shakespeare Street, not Cook Street. 11 July 5am An innovative solution to slow traffic at a major roundabout so pedestrians and cyclists can…

Big turnout for night ride

There were plenty of reasons not to go on the two-hour long Te Awa Light Night ride on Saturday but 1500 people decided to go anyway. A glorious day developed quickly into a bitterly chilly…

Vandals Came, saw, trashed

Another vandalism attack on one of Cambridge’s newest playgrounds will cost ratepayers thousands of dollars in repairs. Damage at the Terry Came Drive playground was discovered yesterday last week. An artistic wall wrap had been…

And the cats came back

More than 2000 people competed or watched when the Hamilton Cat Club held its 75th anniversary show at the Tamahere Community centre last weekend. The event was moved from its previous home, Hamilton Gardens last…

Operational is not working

Conservation Minister Tama Potaka has deflected Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari’s plea for help. General manager Helen Hughes turned to Potaka for help in May, before revealing to The News last month that a cash flow crisis…

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