Next stop US for Rowdy’s

Kihikihi singers/songwriters Blair and Rosie Shaw are planning to perform on the American stage. The couple, who also featured in this year’s Cambridge Autumn Festival, has been invited to attend the USA Radio Awards in…

An almost 50-year-old Plunket record book with Hamilton connections is tugging at the heartstrings of staff and volunteers at the Cambridge Hospice Shop. he book, numbered 128 on the cover, is dated 1975 and has…

New Te Awamutu Rotary Club president Kylie Brewer could well be the embodiment of what service clubs today are looking for. She’s a capable, youthful professional, full of energy and ideas she hopes will attract…

Co-hosting delights linked to a French exchange student and a visit by Rotary International president Gordon McInally were among 2023/24 highlights referenced by outgoing Te Awamutu Rotary Club president Gill Johnston last week. Speaking at…

Two Waipa residents are pinning their hopes on a successful outing at this week’s National Fieldays. One of them is the Cambridge-based chief executive of Brain Tumour Support NZ, Sarah Verran, who hopes the national…

Alan Empson QSM has been celebrated as a skilled leader, a man of faith, a pioneering farmer and a treasured family man. St John’s Church in Te Awamutu was where he was farewelled last Friday…

A Hamilton-based guitar virtuoso, who was raised in Te Awamutu, knocked the socks off hundreds of Rotarians at the weekend. Seventeen-year-old Sean Lurman kicked off the entertainment segment of the weekend programme at the 2024…

It took around 700 bread rolls and sausages, bucketloads of goodwill and who knows how much in the way of sauce to make New Zealand’s longest hotdog in Te Awamutu on Monday. The mammoth effort…

A series of free meetings tomorrow and Saturday signals an important stage in the launch of a book chronicling seven years of research into Te Awamutu’s historically rich architecture. It will bring the public up…

Fifty years ago, Leonard Danvers and Joe Stack were on the threshold of their ordination as Catholic priests – naive young men, they told Viv Posselt. They were on the cusp of a lifelong commitment…