School during lockdown
Te Awamutu schools served up bubbles and Zoom for students during the Level 3 lockdown which ended this week. Pekerau Primary School principal Tania Bagley said she had seen much greater engagement during this lockdown…
Te Awamutu schools served up bubbles and Zoom for students during the Level 3 lockdown which ended this week. Pekerau Primary School principal Tania Bagley said she had seen much greater engagement during this lockdown…
Waipā district councillors have gone back to Zoom meetings – which has advantages and disadvantages for viewers. The council has been broadcasting meetings online since the first Covid lockdown in 2020 – but the view…
Businesses have prepared for the lockdown situation, but the focus is on small businesses to prevent them from going under. That is the message from Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce chief executive Kerrianne Krelle as…
Waipā’s Nikita Howarth is at her third Paralympics – at just 22. “The delayed Games hadn’t affected me much… just meant that we had to hold out to get here and get raring to go,”…
Joanne Bell of Te Awamutu is a true neighbourhood champion, and she has the certificate to prove it. Joanne was recently named Waikato champion of the year at the Neighbourhood Support Awards. “I feel very…
Plans to spruce up Te Awamutu’s railway station have been derailed by continued vandalism of the station platform. Te Awamutu Community Board member Gary Derbyshire said the shelter had now been removed. He and a…
What do you do with an overstocked museum? The New Zealand Fieldays Society is grappling with precisely that issue with its Clydesdale Museum collection at Mystery Creek. Generous donations over the years have left the…
David Nordell likes nothing better than getting his hands dirty under the hood of a 1911 Cal Thorpe Roadster. He was to leave the roadster alone for a day to get out in his 1938…
Road names in Kihikihi could be challenged now a new Waipā street naming policy has been confirmed and at least one councillor says that it is a way to better reflect the community. The aim…
Waipā District councillors want more details about the benefits of spending $540,000 on a Covid recovery package and a say in where the remaining cash goes. At a Strategic Planning and Policy committee last week…
