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Here come the bands

Music from the ‘40s and memories of the Battle of Britain are central to a concert on Sunday jointly featuring the Cambridge Brass Band and the Cambridge Little Big Band. The afternoon concert at the…

All aboard – it’s Bernie’s bus

Cambridge’s Bernard and Margaret Pearson have donated a health shuttle to the Cambridge St John fleet. In the 12 months to July the Cambridge team made about 2600 trips for more than 400 patients ranging…

Walkies to a new home…

Waikato greyhound lovers and their pets will take to Cambridge Raceway later this month for the Great Global Greyhound Walk. Organised by Jenny Bartlett and the Shoebox Appeal, this marks the third time Cambridge has…

Book’s memories revived

Another chance donation to the Cambridge Hospice Shop has given a decades-old item a new and timely purpose. When a well-thumbed scrapbook came in, nothing about the front cover and its picture of a rabbit…

Clyde Graf – Waikato Regional Council

Clyde Graf – Waikato Regional Council See: Candidates in their own words Do you support the use of 1080 to combat pests? (50 words) and what is the biggest threat to our native flora and…

Spending report released

Intervention from the Ombudsman has led to Waipā District Council releasing an event economic impact analysis to The News. Parts of the report – commissioned by the council in June and produced by Infometrics –…

Town Hall work celebrated

Kirsty Johnson knows the grand old lady isn’t quite finished — but she’s proud of how far she’s come. Speaking at the Cambridge Town Hall Open Day on Saturday, Johnson – who since 2021 has…

Getting to the point

Seventy-four years ago, Peter Ustinov starred in the cinema epic Quo Vadis. Literally translated as ‘where are you going’? Although for the historical purists the original alleged biblical utterance of the phrase would have sounded…

Principal in the clear

A mayoral candidate says he was naïve to include a campaign plug in a school newsletter, but Waipā deputy electoral officer Jo Gread says he did nothing wrong. Mike Pettit, principal of Cambridge Primary School…

Vaping, economy debated

Concerns around children’s vaping and addiction issues were among several raised with Taupō MP Louise Upston at last week’s Cambridge Friendly Forum. Cambridge Community Board chair Jo Davies-Colley told the forum the incidence of vaping…

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