Cambridge News NZ

08/06/2024

We were there for the Cambridge High School Las Vegas styled ball at Lake Karapiro last night. Check out our coverage.
Cambridge High School NZ
Mighty River Domain, Lake Karapiro
https://www.cambridgenews.nz/2024/06/viva-las-vegas/

04/06/2024

Thwarted ..... a plan to get rid of Waipā District Council's age friendly policy has been ditched. Read more ....

10am 5 June 2024 A staff suggestion that Waipā District Council ditch its Age Friendly policy has been thwarted by a former veteran councillor. Kihikihi-based Hazel Barnes successfully argued at today’s Strategic Planning and Policy...

29/05/2024

Do we have too many councillors in Waipā District Council? Is it about quality, not quantity?
Te Awamutu News

Waipā could reduce from 11 to eight the number of elected councillors sitting around the debating table. The move, subject to public feedback is understood to have gathered momentum under mayor Susan O’Regan in a...

22/05/2024

At last ..... Menzshed Cambridge have a home. Find out more.

Menzshed in Cambridge finally has a new home, but members are going to spend the first few months of their tenancy doing it up. The 122-year-old Leamington Dairy Factory in Carlyle Street is a shadow...

10/05/2024

Breaking news ..... the Cambridge i-Site will stay open. Destination Cambridge have been able to secure its future post July 1 after Waipa District Council pulled its annual funding.

Destination Cambridge gave us the scoop during the Waipā Home & Leisure Show at the Sir Don Rowlands Centre in Karāpiro today where they have a stand alongside industry partners.

Plus breaking sports news; two Cambridge athletes have been chosen in the New Zealand under 20 team to compete at the world champs, Jan Soanes is a winner at the Creative Fibre's annual exhibition and Cambridge Community Board have allocated funds to community organisations.

Don't forget to keep your eye on our website between papers; we're first with the local news.
https://www.cambridgenews.nz/2024/05/news-in-brief-21/

09/05/2024

08/05/2024

This mum and her five one-day-old pups were dumped in one of Waipa's domains with only a blanket and a bucket of water.

Two pups have died despite loving care and attention by animal control staff.

Now because there are stray dogs in the community with parvovirus, the virus has got into the pound and dogs have had to be put down.

Read what Waipā District Council animal control officers are dealing with and meet an adorable Jack Russell looking for a home.

A parvovirus outbreak in the Cambridge dog pound has been likened to Covid in the way it should be managed. Waipā Compliance manager Karl Tutty confirmed animal control staff had put down four puppies several...

07/05/2024

Finally, we have our own Home and Leisure Show in Waipa and it starts on Friday for three days at Karapiro.
Our team is so excited and we can't wait to see the public and exhibitors at the Sir Don Rowlands Centre.
Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 4pm. Adults $5, children under 12 are free. Check out who will be there.
Te Awamutu News Waikato Business News

The wait is over, Waipa now has its very own Home and Leisure Show, and the Good Local Media team is buzzing with excitement after months of preparation. Advertising director Janine Davy – who came...

01/05/2024

Ngaire Fisher is a regular at the Velodrome in Cambridge and probably the first centurion to ever ride around the track.

Viv Posselt met up with Ngaire and her family at the Velodrome and filed this exclusive story.
Check out our Anzac Day coverage and the two Catholic monsignors - in Cambridge and Te Awamutu - always mistaken for brothers.

Cambridge resident Ngaire Fisher celebrated her 100th this week by becoming the first centenarian to ride the Velodrome track. Her record ride happened on Tuesday morning, after celebrating her birthday on Sunday with a family-filled...

24/04/2024

Councillors met today to approve the appointment of a new CEO. The News editor Roy Pilott, who exclusively revealed Garry Dyet's resignation last year, reflects on the process around finding Dyet's successor and the challenges ahead.
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Waipā councillors appeared to be closer – if not close – to naming a successor for chief executive Garry Dyet this week. They were to meet at Karāpiro today (Wednesday) – after this edition went...

10/04/2024

A backtrack by the council, a new local young farmer of the year, coffee at high school, Cambridge Middle School growing, third bridge letters aplenty, meet our new citizens, feet on the floor at Wilsons and lots more to read in this week's Cambridge News either online under the publications tab, from one of our pick up places around town or in your letter box.
https://www.cambridgenews.nz/

03/04/2024

Cambridge’s Rob and Josie Van Weerd are the proud owners of a new 1966 Ford Mustang, we were at the 160th anniversary of the battle of O-Rākau, the Waikato Chamber of Commerce wants councils to start thinking about merging to prevent duplication of bureaucracy, the differences in rules, the lack of efficiency and speed in delivering services and "the number of dumb initiatives that annoy voters" and cycle numbers are up. Just some of the news in brief in Cambridge News NZ Te Awamutu News Waikato Business News today.

Better slow that Mustang down Cambridge’s Rob and Josie Van Weerd are the proud owners of a new 1966 Ford Mustang which they won at the Beach Hop in Whangamata last month. The Beach Hop...

27/03/2024

What a week! A public forum at Cambridge Community Board which went way over its time, a disastrous drop in session, apologies, threats, deadlines extended and all options on the table.
It's the biggest show in town and your real newspaper Cambridge News NZ is all over it. Read more plus we have an exclusive column from the mayor.

Cambridge residents in the proposed third bridge blue blob zone forced Waipā District Council into significant changes last week while a strident group did themselves no favours by verbally threatening elected officials and staff. In...

21/03/2024

It was supposed to be an opportunity for people to talk to council staff about the proposal to build a third bridge through their neighbourhood but it soon became chaotic prompting the council to call it off and vow to meet again another day.
Read the report from tonight's public meeting.
https://www.cambridgenews.nz/2024/03/drop-in-session-a-disaster/
Te Awamutu News

21/03/2024

Consultation on Cambridge Connections has been extended until April 26, Susan O'Regan - Waipā Mayor has announced this afternoon.

Meanwhile work has stopped between Te Awa Retirement Village and the Velodrome because archaeological features have been found. Read more .....
https://www.cambridgenews.nz/2024/03/news-in-brief-16/
Te Awamutu News

20/03/2024

It was for the Cambridge Autumn Festival on St Patrick's Day and what a boost it was for the town. We couldn't fit all the pictures in the paper so check them out online. Are you there?

Alana Mackay takes a deep breath and tries to sum up the Main Street Carnival and Art Market in Cambridge on Sunday. “We managed to pull something together,” the Autumn Festival Trust chair says modestly...

20/03/2024

Our local paralympians on the world stage, artefacts found, council apologises unreservedly. Some of our news in brief.

Artefacts found Work has stopped on the stormwater outfall in the C3 growth cell south of Cambridge Road between Te Awa Retirement Village and St Peter’s School after workers found historic artefacts. Waipā group manager...

15/03/2024

Our senior writer Mary Anne Gill features in the Michael Jeans exhibition, part of the Cambridge Autumn Festival in the Town Hall. She and Penny Thompson were at the Kids Kerfuffle last year when Michael nabbed them. Bicycle Revolution Cambridge
He has 40 photos on show until 21 March.
Our reporter Jeremy Smith also features.
Cambridge Town Hall

14/03/2024

The Autumn Festival kicks off in Cambridge today. Last night the winners of the photography and short story competitions were announced at a launch in the Town Hall. Check out the winning photos and details of all the winners. https://www.cambridgenews.nz/2024/03/autumn-festival-briefs/
Cambridge Autumn Festival

Winners announced Jane Thompson and Valentina Di Maio of Cambridge won the open and youth categories in the Paua Architects’ sponsored Autumn Festival photography competition. The announcements were made at a launch function in the...

13/03/2024

We love an old wedding story; match that up with an old nurses' story and what do you get? A cracking good read and a chance to catch up with women (and they were all women!) who set off on their nursing careers 60 years ago this year.
Where are they now? Check out their photo from 1964.
https://bit.ly/48OKBsF
Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Te Awamutu News

A group from the Waikato Hospital nursing class of 1964, including two from Cambridge, recently celebrated their 60th reunion. Lynette Aish (nee Gardiner) and Paula Butterworth (nee Houghton) joined Putāruru’s Judy Osborne (nee Udy) and...

13/03/2024

Mōrena and welcome to Thursday and your weekly Cambridge News. We lead today with council's decision to lift rates 14.8 per cent and put the Te Ara Wai, Cambridge Library, Pirongia Cycleway and Cambridge Town Hall projects on hold.
But do you want to know how the councillors arrived at the decision?
Plus we have cricket balls in the Farmers Market, Senior Net hangs up its mouse, Cambridge nurses 60 years on, rowers preparing for Maadi, News in Brief and our popular columnists. Enjoy.
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13/03/2024

Senior constable Deb Hann's latest column.

It has been another busy week in Cambridge. To give you an idea of the range of jobs we deal with, last week saw the team responding to calls for service including family harm, shoplifting,...

12/03/2024

No new Cambridge library/hub for awhile. Community board chair Jo Davies-Colley reacts.

Cambridge Community Board has responded to news today Waipā District Council has paused the Cambridge Library/Hub project. Chair Jo Davies-Colley said the board understood the financial challenges facing the council and the community. “Waipā District...

09/03/2024

Two Olympians visited Karāpiro School and we were there to hear about resilience.

Max Brown was so nervous before his first sprint canoe race for New Zealand at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, he took half an hour to choke down two pieces of jam toast while his...

08/03/2024

It was wet during the Waipa Fun Run but so what? Our photographer captured competitors, volunteers, the prizegiving and the rain.
Check them out online.

When Donna Warwick saw the heavy rain falling on Sunday morning she wondered what impact that might have on her beloved Waipā Fun Run. A record 691 competitors entered the event, now into its 14th...

07/03/2024

What an amazing group of volunteers at the Hospice Waikato shop in Cambridge. They, thanks to you supporting the shop, have raised $3.4 million.
Take a bow and read how they did it.

Hospice Waikato

The crew at Cambridge Hospice Shop have been congratulated by Hospice Waikato chief executive Craig Tamblyn for having raised $3.4 million for local hospice patients and their families over the past decade. Tamblyn spoke about...