The Cambridge Community Board has had a busy start to the year. We have begun planning the town’s popular Anzac commemorative services. With the Town Hall’s renovations well underway, we are planning service options for…
The Cambridge Community Board has had a busy start to the year. We have begun planning the town’s popular Anzac commemorative services. With the Town Hall’s renovations well underway, we are planning service options for…
On our radar I wish to assure Liz Stolwyk and Waipā citizens that kiwifruit is definitely not “off the radar”. A group of affected neighbours from three different areas of Waipā is working with the…
Family harm is present in every community, and much still goes unreported. This may be because a victim of harm does not feel able to stand up to their aggressor, they are fearful of making…
I wonder how many of us applied for annual leave on the Friday, taking advantage of the Waitangi holiday to turn it into a long Waitangi Weekend. I suggest that if we’re honest, that will…
Misinformation is not new. Sometimes confusion reigns and wrong information is innocently shared. Sometimes tabloids make clickbait headlines that are wildly misleading, so you visit their website, and they make money. Now we also have…
Thirty two years ago our household was divided over the matter of the referendum that canvassed opinion as to MMP – or not. I was strongly against it as I felt that a 61 seat…
Waikato Regional Council recently confirmed its proposed Annual Plan budget. Thanks to a lot of good work by our chief executive and his staff, careful consideration by councillors and following a series of workshops with…
I’ve been watching some tenacious tomatoes growing in our vegetable patch. Among a crop of normal tomatoes spreading up against trellis on a wooden paling fence, a few have grown very weird. They must have…
Students are again regularly riding at speed on pavements in the main shopping areas of town on their daily commute. This poses a risk to other pavement users – especially after school – when many…
A very important part of volcano monitoring is understanding seismicity, meaning earthquakes or vibrations that move through the Earth that we sometimes feel at the surface. Most volcanic earthquakes are too small to be felt…
