A man described as an iconic stock agent, Alan Douglas (Hizzy) Hiscox died at his Taumarunui home on May 2. In a career stretching back to the 1970s, Alan became a top Central North Island…
A man described as an iconic stock agent, Alan Douglas (Hizzy) Hiscox died at his Taumarunui home on May 2. In a career stretching back to the 1970s, Alan became a top Central North Island…
Logan Dawson used data driven decision making to double dairy farm revenue. Dawson, who with his wife Sian was runner up in the 2024 Dairy Industry Association Awards Share Farmer of the Year Award, is…
Female motorcyclists from around the central North Island will converge on Te Awamutu tomorrow (Friday) for the funeral of Donna Gaye McCauley. The 51-year-old died last week at Te Poi near Matamata following a crash…
Nithmount Farm Cow 494 affectionately nuzzles 2024 New Zealand dairy trainee of the year Kirwyn Ellis. The encounter in a paddock on Hamish and Sharee Germann’s 130ha dairy farm – nestled between Mt Pirongia and…
A new movie in te reo Māori about the battle of O-Rākau will be the first in New Zealand cinema history to share the history from a Māori perspective. It will be released during Matariki…
It’s another thumbs up for all at this month’s Cambridge Creative Fibre Exhibition and Fibre Fair held in the Cambridge Town Hall. More than 400 people came through the doors on the only Fibre and…
It might have already racked up the kilometres and seen its fair share of dirty gardening business, but Cambridge Tree Trust is happy with its new ‘old’ ute. The 2011 Mitsubishi Triton will go quickly…
A specially adapted performance of ‘Something Tells Me You’re in for Something Good’ by Cambridge Rotary’s own band, The Bruised Brothers knocked the socks off hundreds of Rotarians gathered in Cambridge last weekend. The social…
It’s a fine line between pleasure and pain, as the Divinyls’ song goes, but it’s a line Jim Thomassen gets a kick out of walking. Jim, 55, is a competitive chilli eater who will take…
The bricks will stay but the neglected metal tank and outdoor walkway framing could go. That seems to be the fate of Cambridge’s historic Water Tower despite 62 per cent of the 223 submitters to…
