We have farewelled 2024, its ups and its downs. We bid a warm welcome to 2025 and its potentials. Many, if not most, of us assert a faith and a positivity in our being a…
We have farewelled 2024, its ups and its downs. We bid a warm welcome to 2025 and its potentials. Many, if not most, of us assert a faith and a positivity in our being a…
Waipā council meetings will move to Wednesdays and the spending limit lifted for the mayor and committee chairs to $10 million in more “behind closed doors” decisions expected to be rubber stamped by councillors in…
Waitomo Golf and Country Club’s $1 million course and clubhouse could soon be handed back to members in a proposal from owners Ōtorohanga Club. Ōtorohanga Club and Waitomo Golf and Country Club merged in 2012…
Incoming Te Wānanga o Aotearoa kaiwhakatere chief executive Evie O’Brien says she is excited and humbled to be appointed. O’Brien was welcomed back to Te Awamutu head office on Tuesday with a pōwhiri. “It has what…
Te Awamutu College’s 2025 cohort of Year 9 students was welcomed with a pōwhiri at Ōtawhao Marae on Tuesday. Enrolment numbers are subject to change but as of 10am that day there were 326 students…
Te Awamutu-Community Board member John Wood was behind one of eight submissions in favour of the building and operation of a waste to energy incineration plant in Te Awamutu. Wood ticked the “support parts or…
Hay on the sideline, sun beating down, plenty of places to pitch a marquee and lay down picnic blankets and chairs, food and coffee truck and an international women’s polo test. What more could you…
Meghan Hawkes takes us back to 1937 for a look at what was in the Waipa news. At Burchell’s store, Alexandra Street, Te Awamutu, specially made and ready-to-wear suits of good quality and perfect fit…
No doubt many of you, like me, have seen the harrowing images on the television news, or on various social media platforms, of widepread wildfires which have devastated areas of California, north of Los Angeles….
Orienteering Waikato members have found a way to support Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari with a Save the Sanctuary Rogaine. When the club heard the Department of Conservation had withdrawn operational funding from the Maungatautari Ecological Island…