i-Site grants Te Awamutu and Cambridge i-Sites have been given grants of $30,000 each by Waipā District Council in the 2024-2025 financial year to help recover from the loss of the council’s funding. The decision…
i-Site grants Te Awamutu and Cambridge i-Sites have been given grants of $30,000 each by Waipā District Council in the 2024-2025 financial year to help recover from the loss of the council’s funding. The decision…
Police have named the motorbike rider who died following a crash on Te Poi Road near Matamata on Friday. She was 51-year-old Donna Gaye McCauley from Waipa. Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are…
Cambridge’s i-Site will remain open after securing support from two tourism operators. Destination Cambridge general manager Ruth Crampton said when Waipā District Council announced it was pulling its funding for the i-Site, from July 1,…
Restoration of the stained glass windows at St Paul’s Church in Rangiaowhia are among six projects to get funding from Waipā District Council’s Heritage Fund. The $20,000 is $40,000 shy of what is needed to…
Attendance records at Waipā District Council’s two swimming pools in Te Awamutu and Cambridge have been smashed in the six months ended December 31. Nearly 193,000 people – up 9.3 per cent from the previous…
Cambridge High School students are chatting, laughing and playing games together more during break times since cellphones were banned in New Zealand schools, says principal Greg Thornton. “Previously they would all gather around a phone,…
Volcanologist Dr Janine Krippner has made an explosive discovery. Century old views of Mount Ngāuruhoe on the Central Plateau in eruption held by the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington are a smouldering sham. Krippner, a…
Edward ‘Eddie’ Webb was a rare gem. Not only was he a hugely successful businessman, a talented and competitive singer and outstanding Rotarian, but he was an indefatigable champion for his community, a faith-driven man…
Renae Townsend’s students weren’t the only ones to benefit from a new bike skills programme which got underway at Cambridge East Primary School this week. The Year three and four teacher readily admitted she had…
Bamboo, convolvulus and jasmine have taken over parts of Lake Te Koo Utu’s steep banks. The weed growth in Cambridge is generating concern within the community, Community Services manager Brad Ward told the Service Delivery…