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Health expert: use ‘trusted’sites

Health New Zealand’s chief clinical advisor is encouraging people to look only at “trusted sources of information” when trying to find answers to health questions. Sharon Sime, Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Chief…

ACC provides traditional support

ACC is providing rongoā Māori – traditional Māori healing – at this week’s national Waka Ama championships. Its partnership with Waka Ama is part of a strategy, Huakina Te Rā, which has the vision of…

Man charged with indecent assault

A 33-year-old will appear in the Hamilton District Court tomorrow charged with indecently assaulting a female under 12 and intimidation. Police received several reports of a man in Cambridge making inappropriate advances towards women in…

A drive in the country

Southbound drivers from Karāpiro were given what would have been for many, a different view of the countryside last week. A detour took traffic along Karāpiro and Taotaoroa roads while work was carried out on…

It’s Tyler to the rescue

Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari neighbours are being offered “aversion training’ for their dogs – as part of the project to establish the North Island’s first breeding colony for over a century. Community support for the sanctuary…

Paint brushes and pedals … a colourful life

Richard John Horner:  11.8.1941 – 5.12.2023 Richard Horner, who died in Cambridge last month, was a widely-respected landscape artist whose work graced the walls of homes around the world. Marion Hunt, past-president and current vice-president…

Keeping an eye on Gerry

Nothing escapes Gerry Wake’s eagle eyes. The Te Awa resident can often be seen sitting in his mobility scooter on the temporary Cambridge Road cycle/pedestrian path watching the traffic go by and the contractors go…

Taking care of fun

Steph Bell-Jenkins finds a school caretaker who is a class act. Wanted: creative caretaker who thinks like Peter Pan. We seek a resourceful person who is as comfortable cleaning toilets as they are constructing an…

$10m cycleway work progresses

You could be forgiven for thinking a bomb hit Bryce and Duke streets in Cambridge last week as contractors continued work on the $10.2 million pathway project. The cycleway from Hamilton Road south down Bryce…

Rates: where to now for council?

An early return to the debating chamber today for Waipā councillors to flesh out double-digit rates increases has been cancelled so staff can grapple with a long-term plan thrown a huge curve ball last month…

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