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New gallery pops up

Artists linked to Te Awamutu’s disability provider Enrich Plus and others from around the region have a new space to market their work. Last Friday saw the opening of what is being called the Waipā…

Councillor off the museum trust

Waipā district councillor Marcus Gower has been told he’s not a member of the Te Awamutu Museum Board Trust – and hasn’t been for four years. Gower learned he wasn’t a council representative on the…

We’ve found our marbles

When the world championship of marbles rolls off in England tomorrow – Good Friday – there will be a Te Awamutu flavour to it. The Te Awamutu Menzshed has made two crowns to be used…

Our heritage sites

Cambridge: Water Tower, Courthouse (Former), Monavale Homestead, Legal Chambers (Former), Trecarne Stables, Trecarne House, Band Rotundas – Cambridge and Leamington, Valmai Gazebo/Conservatory, Valmai House, Arnold House, Salvation Army Hall, Oddfellows Lodge (Former), Town Hall, World…

Online and growing

Te Awamutu News has pipped its Cambridge sister publication in the website stats for March thanks to a story about the Alpha Hotel in Kihikihi. It is a first for the newspaper – Cambridge News’…

Brown takes Museum post

3 April Update – Andrew Brown was today appointed Te Ara Wai Governance Committee chair. An earlier version of the story in print below jumped the gun and suggested he had already been appointed. The…

Waipā Creative Conduit grand opening

A desire to see artists receive as much return from their artwork as possible is behind a new initiative which opens on Saturday in Te Awamutu. The Waipā Creative Conduit is the brainchild of Kihikihi…

New leader at Menzshed

New Te Awamutu Menzshed leader Richard Cato has a message for veterans – you’re never too old to spend time with us. Cato was elected this month to succeed the retiring Steve Mannington who stood…

Pam’s pic of the bunch

When Pam Thomson saw the theme for a Waipā photography competition was A Hard Day’s Work, she immediately thought of her friend Jarrod Mitchell at Pirongia’s 360 Automotive. “I knew he would make a great…

Water to get the treatment

Contracts worth $86 million – a record for the Waipā District Council – have been announced for a solar-powered wastewater treatment plant in Cambridge. Work on a three-year $100 million project is expected to start…

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