News contributions: At Good Local Media we can’t always be at your event or assign a reporter to do interviews – but you can still get your story in the Cambridge News, Te Awamutu News…
News contributions: At Good Local Media we can’t always be at your event or assign a reporter to do interviews – but you can still get your story in the Cambridge News, Te Awamutu News…
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Correction James Graham, currently acting chief financial officer at Waipa District Council, has been appointed Waikato Waters chief financial officer, not chief executive. 5am 7 May Waipā District Council has launched a significant restructure as…
It was another high scoring weekend for the Waipā club rugby teams. Highlights included Pirongia scoring 219 unanswered points across 1A and 1B divisions, while Hautapu scored 142 across their two senior matches, winning all…
When researching large submarine landslides below our oceans, an alien example caught my attention. About 51 million years ago a meteorite hit the continental shelf about 200 km south of Nova Scotia, Canada. This location…
You may recognise these lines from the Coleridge poem The Ancient Mariner which describes the fate of a sailing ship becalmed at sea. However, after all the significant rain events we have experienced in the…
Alexander Ligertwood would not go into the Old Men’s Refuge at Hamilton, and Dr Pairman, who attended him, also opposed the idea. Alexander, 68, was from Scotland where he had attended Glasgow University and earned…
Waipā residents’ water services came under scrutiny last week ahead of their transfer to Waikato Waters, at a Waipa District Council meeting last week. Away from the meeting, the organisation representing the Hauraki, Matamata Piako,…
Longtime Pirongia Rural Fire brigade member John Lawrence Kelly has died three days short of his 80th birthday. Kelly, who died on April 26, John was a firefighter from July 1998 to April 2004 and…
Te Awamutu people want to keep their town beautiful. After the resurrection of Keep Te Awamutu Beautiful, and consultation with building landlords, the first group project work was carried out last month. Group members, including…
