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Moving on The doors to Te Awamutu Museum Education and Research Centre’s temporary Rickit Road site will close next week and the team move back…

Honey bees-ness tackled

Local body moves to protect residents from showers of bee poo are being given a tick of approval by Mountain View Honey’s beekeeper Lindy Bennett….

Foundation members remembered

The work of Pirongia Heritage and Information Centre foundation and life members the late Murray Walter and his wife Barbara has been recognised with the…

Call to stall all waste incineration

Don’t Burn Waipā spokesman Eoin Fitzpatrick wants a moratorium on waste to energy incineration pending a national analysis. Fitzpatrick made the appeal to the independent…

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Challenge gets harder for Sports

Second-placed Hautapu will be well rested after a bye week, while Te Awamutu Sports’ 48-14 loss to Fraser Tech – pushed the Waikato club rugby…

Foster booked in for life

Matthew Cooper, Chris Gibbes, Jono Gibbes, Scott McLeod and Deon Muir were among the rugby legends in attendance as Te Awamutu Sports ambushed Ian Foster…

It’s family next for Petch

If the stars align, kiwi sprint cyclist Rebecca Petch will have a special new fan supporting her at the Los Angeles Olympic Games. Petch and…

Jane’s two-day plus marathon

Cambridge’s Jane McAlpine set a New Zealand women’s record last week in Queensland at the Dead Cow Gully Backyard Masters, running 355km in 53 hours….

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Explosive eruptions

It’s the time of year again when I am spending a month working in the Canary Islands, located offshore northern Africa but part of Spain….

Celebrating youth

As I write this, I’ve just finished helping run a holiday programme for primary school children at St John’s, and my heart is full. In…

The demise of Alfred Jones

About four miles out from Pokuru near the Te Mawhai station road junction on an August evening in 1925 two motorists passed a strangely stationery…

How the US tops volcano list

Last week, I covered how volcanically active Indonesia is, noting that it ranks fourth globally for the number of active volcanoes. So, let’s talk about…