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E-trike opens cycle pathways

Matty Bauernfeind has two great passions – Arsenal Football Club and advocating for disability accessibility. Add a third one to that now – travelling on…

Titchener prepares next move

Anti-fluoride campaigner Kane Titchener, buoyed by a court ruling in the United States, says he will ask Waipā District Council to liaise with 13 other…

Who will make the connection?

Waipā will host a national competition for the country’s top line mechanics and cable jointers later this month. Lines companies Waipā Networks and The Lines…

Lobby group calls for a ‘local’ voice

Don’t Burn Waipa Secretary Nick Cantlon wants the Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board to step in where Waipā District Council has stepped out. Cantlon…

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Kihikihi bowlers are back, jack

September heralded the start of the “new season”  and the traditional opening day at the  Kihikihi Bowling Club was held with the first jack of…

Groups get Tū Manawa funding

Six Waipā organisations and a programme delivered in the district by Waikato Rugby Union secured Tū Manawa funding with the help of Sport Waikato. The…

Ice breaker at Ngā Roto

Scouts Aotearoa national commissioner Raani Kelderman called it a fantastic ice breaker. More than 200 scouts and kaiārahi (leaders) from 14 scout groups in the…

Medals and mishaps

September 6 11am Ngāhinapōuri’s Nicole Murray, 31, has withdrawn from her final Para cycling race at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games tonight due to illness….

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Together we are better

I read, with much interest, the celebration of the opening of the new Hospice Waikato retail store in Te Awamutu. My late father was a…

Letters to Editor – 3 October 2024

Arbitrage It was a relief to read a letter (Cambridge News, September 26) which rightly challenged the earlier comments by Waipa District Council’s deputy chief…

Allegations of penny pinching

Meghan Hawkes reports on headline news in Waipa – from 1909   Recent railway reforms riled a passenger who, on arrival at the Te Awamutu…

On the move … again

In a car crammed full of my belongings I sat counting on my fingers the times I have moved house or apartment, not counting the…