When Tegan Crotty’s friends told her she should try out swimming, she was initially reluctant. But the minute she got in the water “it was just like that,” the 27-year-old Te Awamutu retail assistant and…
When Tegan Crotty’s friends told her she should try out swimming, she was initially reluctant. But the minute she got in the water “it was just like that,” the 27-year-old Te Awamutu retail assistant and…
Matariki made history last week as the world’s first indigenous celebration to be recognised as a public holiday – and for local iwi Ngāti Apakura it was historic for other reasons. They celebrated Matariki with…
How does a train enthusiast get their steam engine fix once they have been phased out? They build their own. That’s exactly what Cambridge Model Engineering Society member Dennis Searle did. Searle’s love of steam…
At 71, Nicholas Bartosiak is the Te Awamutu Pakeke Lions Clubs’ youngest member. He was appointed their president last week, following the resignation of the club’s previous president, Myrtle McDowell. “I am delighted, I have…
The roles of Waipā’s two community boards in water and dog issues are in the spotlight this week. Te Awamutu Community Board’s submission on the council’s draft Water Supply Bill sent earlier this month referred…
Waikato Regional Council has granted $2.076 million to four landscape scale predator control projects in the region – including one at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari and another which benefits from it. At last week’s council meeting…
A discharge into the Mangauika Stream near Pirongia, which supplies treated drinking water to Te Awamutu and Pirongia, has copped Waipā District Council a formal warning from Waikato Regional Council. The stream, which arises from…
Te Awamutu College school uniforms will be sold at cost price from the school’s uniform shop starting next term. The decision was made by the board so it could support parents and caregivers in an…
Waipā can look forward to a bumper crop of community events as the country moves out of Covid restrictions. A council committee yesterday considered a raft of funding applications from groups planning to hold events…
Nine of the 13 major resource consent applications received by Waipā District Council in the last quarter are on hold pending further information. They include plans to operate a sand quarry in Ōhaupō, extend one…
