By Luke East Just over 70 years ago Joe and Tom Hughes opened the Hughes Bros Coal Mine in Pirongia. With much of the nation’s towns still reliant on freight delivered by rail, coal was…
By Luke East Just over 70 years ago Joe and Tom Hughes opened the Hughes Bros Coal Mine in Pirongia. With much of the nation’s towns still reliant on freight delivered by rail, coal was…
Friendships forged in the heat of a wood-fired anagama kiln in the back-blocks of Roto-o-Rangi are central to an exhibition at Te Awamutu Museum until December 23. ‘Forged in Fire’ tells the story of how…
By Luke East Fundraising for Te Awamutu’s Gathering Place has topped the $1.2 million mark. Two weeks ago the Te Awamutu News reported that the Te Awamutu Presbyterian Church had put a proposal to Waipa…
Riverside Golf Club has appointed one of New Zealand’s longest-serving golf professionals and an old familiar face to two key positions at its new Tīeke course. Richard Ellis will become golf director while well-known Waikato golf identity…
Submissions from Waikato-Tainui, Hamilton City Council, Waipa and Waikato district councils left Parliament’s Environment committee with “a lot to think about.” That was the summing up by committee chair Eugenie Sage after hearing presentations on…
Staff at Waipā District Council found assets they did not realise they had – but more disturbingly found they had routinely listed other “disposed assets” on their annual reports for years. Some old assets dated…
Te Awamutu College live-streamed its awards presentation ceremonies for the first-time last week which gave its new Facebook page, launched earlier in the month, an added boost. At the awards themselves, held in the school…
4.30pm 24 November 2021 – “Mā wai rā, e taurima te marae I waho nei. Mā tātou katoae taurima” Pop-up vaccination sites, drive-throughs, prizes, extended hours, music and kai are on offer to encourage our…
Community Board chair Ange Holt fears public apathy could stifle conversation around reviewing the town’s identity. Holt raised the idea – reported exclusively in the News – of reviewing the present Rose Town moniker last…
Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari attracted 13,500 visitors in the last financial year – just fractionally down on pre-Covid numbers. In a year where visitors were almost exclusively domestic, 56% came from the Waikato region, 17 per cent from Auckland and 10 per…
