Learning about the fallen 58
Genealogists are keen to hear from anyone able to boost research around the 58 fallen World War One soldiers whose names are listed on the cenotaph at Te Awamutu’s Anzac Green. The call comes after…
Genealogists are keen to hear from anyone able to boost research around the 58 fallen World War One soldiers whose names are listed on the cenotaph at Te Awamutu’s Anzac Green. The call comes after…
Tracy Chisholm, the daughter of Te Awamutu News’ Person of the Year for 2023, Paul Walker, is hoping next month’s Colour Run at Lake Ngā Roto will be a precursor event set to inject more…
Emma Poole’s tenure as FMG’s first female Young Farmer of the Year is nearing its end. Last July, the Pirongia farmer, already the Waikato Bay of Plenty Young Farmer of the Year, became the first…
Chris Rennie and Ōhaupō School could be considered a tried and tested partnership. He became the school’s new principal at the start of term one. With the first flurry now behind him, he chatted last…
Organisers of Sunday’s Ecology Expo at Te Awamutu Museum are delighted with the uptake from the community. The expo was the second Tui & Tama Eco Expo held at the museum to coincide with Children’s…
Information on the progress being made on an ecological corridor linking Maungatautari and Pirongia maunga will form part of an Ecology Expo taking place at the Te Awamutu Museum on Sunday. The event brings together…
The Te Awamutu community is being asked to help preserve its history by supporting a pre-sales format to bring a unique publishing project to fruition. Sandra Metcalfe and Alan Hall – both members of the…
Waipā District Libraries launched its annual Heritage Month last week with a talk on New Zealanders who have Scottish and Irish blood coursing through their veins. ‘Southern Celts’ was hosted at Cambridge Library by Celine…
Members of the Eight Ball Group are used to being quizzed on the origins of their name. The reason has more to do with physiology than pool, it seems, because the four men who started…
An overheard remark from a child entering the building had new Te Awamutu library supervisor Donna Wilson tickled pink. Sighing audibly at the doorway, the youngster stopped and said: “Mum, I love the library and…