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Building a champion

24 April 2025 The original article has been changed. Timmo’s ITM is still owned and operated by Clayton and Nicky Timmo and not Jack Mathis’…

Kennedy fluoride move greeted

Anti-fluoride campaigners are claiming another victory as the United States administration takes an increasingly negative view of the use of the chemical. The latest move…

Board neutral on water option

The consultation process surrounding the formation of a seven-council controlled water authority has been described as a bitter pill to swallow. Te Awamutu-Kihikihi Community board…

Creativity on show

Te Awamutu Creative Fibre group members will show off their mastery in town next week. An array of products, many of them made from scratch…

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College foot it in clash

It wasn’t a case of first time lucky at the Clash of the Colleges in Auckland earlier this month, but Te Awamutu College students did…

Wins for Waipā teams

Te Awamutu Sports and Hautapu picked up convincing home victories in the Waikato club rugby premiership played on Good Friday. Hautapu beat old foes Hamilton…

Close calls on the mat

It has been an extraordinary month for close competitions which started with the King Country championship fours. Each of the seven teams played four games…

Weal handed the reins

Equestrian Sport’s new high performance dressage manager has her eyes firmly set on Aachen in Germany 16 months from now. Waipā-based Christine Weal says it…

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Care and generosity on show

This morning, I was one of a group waiting outside St Patrick’s Catholic church ready to begin our annual Walk of Witness, an annual event…

The muddy kind of volcano

As we are well aware, volcanoes erupt molten rock and volcanic gases released as magma rises from deep within the Earth. But what about mud…

Letters to the editor – 24 April 2025

Maintenance needed I think maintenance at the Waipā War Memorial Park is all that is needed for the park seats and chain link fence, not…

Linton loss recalled

Andrew Linton had just been promoted to corporal and hoped to go one better when he wrote to his parents, as Meghan Hawkes recalls in…