Gordon and Heather McInally were so impressed with the Urban Miners recycling operation in Cambridge they intend to take the concept home to Scotland. The couple visited the Cambridge Rotary Club’s star performer, Urban Miners,…
Gordon and Heather McInally were so impressed with the Urban Miners recycling operation in Cambridge they intend to take the concept home to Scotland. The couple visited the Cambridge Rotary Club’s star performer, Urban Miners,…
Oh, how things have changed! A 1905 Waikato newspaper unearthed recently by Cambridge man Bill Wilson makes for some interesting comparisons with today’s newspapers. The content and style has changed drastically and so has the…
Waipā activated its Crisis Management team after the controversial Cambridge Connections meeting where mayor Susan O’Regan was allegedly threatened. The drop in meeting about the site for a third bridge over Waikato River -held at…
The government is working across several fronts to meet the demands of changing needs in our ageing population, Minister for Seniors Casey Costello says. Speaking at last week’s Cambridge Grey Power meeting at Taylor Made…
Seven years ago Glyn and Robyn Doughty’s 1965 Singer Gazelle was rusting away in a Levin paddock. The Tauwhare couple were no strangers to Gazelles, having owned previous models, but were determined to restore this…
A six-decade old ski club is preparing a wake after learning its lease on Lake Karāpiro won’t be renewed. The Brooklyn Water Ski Club has been at the Taumatawiiwii Reserve since the early 1960s, but…
A cash flow crisis could force the closure of Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari by the end of August. “Prior to Wednesday we would be looking at six weeks before we were going to shut up shop,”…
Thirty years ago, a young dairy industry reporter, newly transferred from the King Country, covered her first Fieldays. The News senior writer Mary Anne Gill was back at Mystery Creek today and filed her thoughts….
Just before 6pm on Saturday, June 8, a blue Plymouth rumbles up to the Sir Don Rowlands Event Centre at Lake Karāpiro. Isla Gerrand, Amy Wright and Jess Stewart climb out of the 50-year-old car…
Scout leaders learned how to build emergency shelters in Pirongia Forest Park recently. The leaders, kaiarahi or mentors, were challenged to build emergency shelters from material found lying on the bush floor. While trampers should…
