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104 years on

The French and New Zealand flags flew at half mast next to the Fred Graham sculpture in Lake Te Koo Utu Domain last week to mark 104 years since New Zealand soldiers liberated the northern…

Concert in the park

The late withdrawal of Cambridge Brass Band musical director Rob Hocking with Covid and inclement weather meant attendance for the annual free Armistice Salute Concert on Sunday, in front of the Victoria Park cricket pavilion,…

Stand and deliver…

Do not expect to see any political in-fighting on the Cambridge Community Board while Jo Davies-Colley is chair. It is an environment she wants nothing to do with and she thinks voters and mayor Susan…

Weeding out lake issues

A robotic kayak invented by Waipā engineer Jeffrey To is on course to capture what’s going on in Waikato’s lakes. Ngā Roto near Te Awamutu has koi carp aplenty, some sunken objects including a 55m…

Questions, questions …..

Six Waipā residents have put in 15 per cent of the 434 official information requests to the council in the last year, taking up more than eight weeks’ staff time. The most prolific requester, with…

Matteo has the write stuff

Matteo Di Maio’s dazzling intellect has already won him many admirers in the world of journalism. It also won him Cambridge High School’s coveted dux award last week. It’s a big call, labelling someone a…

Our women in politics

Waikato’s female local body leaders have committed to reviving the Women in Politics movement buoyed by their performances in the recent elections. Hamilton deputy mayor Angela O’Leary will coordinate the group which was popular when…

New leaders for trust

Waipā Networks Trust has appointed Sarah Matthews as its new chairperson, the first woman to lead the trust. David McLean was chosen as the trust’s deputy chairperson. Matthews, a chartered accountant with Ruapehu District Council,…

Crime, business, transport 

Chamber’s targets outlined If Susan O’Regan was expecting a charmed ride at her first Cambridge Chamber of Commerce ‘Meet the Mayor’ function, it took all of two minutes for chief executive Kelly Bouzaid to disavow…

Cambridge cows star on screen

When award-winning documentary film director Costa Botes asked Andrew Johnstone if he could film him and his cows in Cambridge, Johnstone readily agreed thinking nothing more about it. Two years on, as he looks at…

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