Twenty years ago, a Te Awamutu College staff member had the idea an artificial hockey turf would be a worthwhile addition to the college grounds. “It was a dream, a fantasy land,” principal Tony Membery…
Twenty years ago, a Te Awamutu College staff member had the idea an artificial hockey turf would be a worthwhile addition to the college grounds. “It was a dream, a fantasy land,” principal Tony Membery…
The full signs have gone up for out of zone students at several Waipā schools including the at capacity Te Awamutu Primary School. The Education ministry has told the primary school it cannot accept any…
Ōhaupō university student Pieta Bouma – who became a paraplegic in 2019 – was guest speaker at Sacred Heart Girls’ College in Hamilton last week. Pieta, then aged 19, was on a gap year and…
School counsellors Te Awamutu Intermediate School has announced it will have two counsellors working at the school in 2024. They are Lian Smith, who is funded through Zion Church, and Grace van Grootel, who will…
Update Thursday 8 February 2.40pm The country’s stance on waste to energy plants could become standardised as a result of a Waipā District Council decision, the company behind an application for one in Te Awamutu…
Members of the Eight Ball Group are used to being quizzed on the origins of their name. The reason has more to do with physiology than pool, it seems, because the four men who started…
Resetting the budget became harder than expected for Waipā council this week with informed sources telling The News elected councillors are applying pressure on staff to scrap “nice to haves”. A public workshop on the…
Visits to Te Awamutu News website were 52 per cent up last month on the same period in 2023. Leading the way was the home page, up 80 per cent with the downloadable version of…
Ōhaupō – the town of the future. That is the scenario and one of several key focus areas included in consultation documents for Waipā’s spatial plan Ahu Ake which the council’s Strategic Planning and Policy…
Pirongia’s Tower Action Group has suggested the “easy option” has been selected to put up a cell tower in the village. Mobile tower Infrastructure company Connexa caught the community off guard last month by announcing…
