The committee behind planning for the $33.1 million Te Ara Wai Museum in Te Awamutu met this week but, as with previous meetings this year, most of it was behind closed doors. The meeting took…
The committee behind planning for the $33.1 million Te Ara Wai Museum in Te Awamutu met this week but, as with previous meetings this year, most of it was behind closed doors. The meeting took…
Te Awamutu landlords have rejected taking on a special rate which would have provided funding to promote retail business in the town centre. Voting forms went out to 96 business owners, and when voting closed…
Readers of Te Awamutu-Kihikihi Community Board agendas get questions and answers and a debate all in one go. Board chair Ange Holt’s monthly reports are now followed by a “staff response” where comments are made…
Each year The News in Cambridge and Te Awamutu asks readers to help us select two very special people. The News person of the year award is entering is fourth year as a twin award…
The Taiea te Taiao project has completed 200,000 plantings in its first two years. The initiative, founded in 2021 and funded and planned out for the next five years, seeks to establish an ecological corridor…
Pirongia School called in a couple of trailblazers for last week’s second running of the school’s Young Farmer Competition. Principal Kelly Bicknell invited 2023 Young Farmer of the Year winner Emma Poole and her husband…
It’s the end of an era as Ōhaupō School prepares to say goodbye to its long-serving principal, Sue McLocklan. When she closes the door to her principal’s office for the last time at the end…
A partnership between New Zealand’s largest rural tours’ operator and the Cambridge i-Site will result in a significant boost to Waipā’s tourism industry and give farmers an added income stream. And the idea came from…
Danny Smith was initially drawn to the Te Awamutu Volunteer Fire Brigade because it seemed like it was made up of a “great bunch” of people – and he wanted to be part of the…
Fashion statements in praise of the countries new citizens have come from and the country which they now call home have become an integral part of the Waipā citizenship ceremonies. Bright colours and Kiwi fashion…
