Happy New Year all, I hope you managed to get a good break over the festive season. I, like many in the community, ended up sick for the week before my Christmas leave, so had…
Happy New Year all, I hope you managed to get a good break over the festive season. I, like many in the community, ended up sick for the week before my Christmas leave, so had…
As we emerge from the shadow of an epidemic and endure cost of living rises, one thing is certain in 2024 – councils around the country, including Waipā, will announce major rate increases. Waipā’s proposed…
William Jones did not want to see a doctor despite his wife, Tema’s, insistence. The 51 year old Irishman had been in bad health for some time but always refused medical attention. But on this…
The year 2023 is finishing with more gloomy economic news than good news. But I will start with the good news. Inflation is on the way down again globally and in New Zealand. House prices…
During my time working for the Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program part of my job was gathering satellite images of volcanoes around the world and describing what they show. Looking at thousands of volcanoes during…
Waipā District Council revealed the size of a proposed rate increase last week. The News’ Mary Anne Gill, the only journalist who follows the council’s work, reflects on a process which enabled councillors to formulate…
The year is drawing to an end and this is my last column for 2023. What a year we have had! I want to start again this week with some good news. An elderly local…
Many churches in Cambridge and around the world set up a nativity set at Christmas time. A typical nativity set includes the main characters of the nativity narrative: baby Jesus lying in a manger, Mary…
Emily Dickenson wrote “hope is the thing with feathers which perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all”.’ In our back yard, over the past month, a songbird…
Mandatory is the word we may all not want to hear anymore. And for the last three years we have been stuck with all the rules and what to do wherever we go. This year…
