A Cambridge Community Board member has taken a swipe at Waipā District Council for championing debt rather than reducing rates’ inflation. Andrew Myers, who is also a member of the Fonterra co-operative council, was responding…
A Cambridge Community Board member has taken a swipe at Waipā District Council for championing debt rather than reducing rates’ inflation. Andrew Myers, who is also a member of the Fonterra co-operative council, was responding…
Pouring better-off funding into Ōtorohanga College is paying huge dividends, principal Lyndsay Kurth says. Ōtorohanga College received $1.64m of the first tranche of better-off funding allocated via the Ōtorohanga District Council as part of the…
News of the appointment of Te Arikinui Nga wai hono i te po as new leader of the Kīngitanga was greeted with joy amongst the tears from the tens of thousands at Tūrangawaewae, who farewelled…
Te Awamutu’s service clubs and organisations are being asked to help “zhuzh up” the Ōhaupō Rd sign at the town’s northern entrance. “It does need a little bit of a zhuzh up,” said Te Awamutu…
Waipā District Council has been asked to relax its alcohol ban plan at Lake Arapuni campsites. Reacting to Waipa District Council’s draft alcohol policy and bylaw Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board chair Ange Holt…
This year’s charity Book Fair organised by the Te Awamutu Rotary Club raised a record-breaking $22,000 plus. Once costs are deducted, the figure will likely sit around $21,000, said Book Fair convenor Laurel Smith. That…
The Government is scrapping plans for 29 speed bumps on state highways, as motorists complain about the severity of three of them in Ōhaupō. “Kiwis are sick of seeing money go into expensive speed bumps…
Te Awamutu College has announced it will not accept students from outside its year-old zone – because it’s full. Acting principal Wayne Carter said the school was predicting a roll of more than 1400 in…
Students from four primary schools – Ōhaupō, Rukuhia, Kaipaki and Tamahere – joined residents of Hamilton’s Bupa Foxbridge Village to find out more about Waikato’s waterways. Using environmental “eDNA” technology with AquaWatch’s Waka monitoring equipment,…
Waipā’s new chief executive was greeted with a powhiri at Karāpiro on Monday, and it was down to business the following day with her first council meeting. Tokoroa born Stephanie O’Sullivan accepted the challenge of…
