Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan celebrated a successful year for the district but warned of stormy waters ahead last week. The mayor spoke at the annual Celebrating Waipā gathering at the Sir Don Rowlands Centre, Karāpiro,…
Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan celebrated a successful year for the district but warned of stormy waters ahead last week. The mayor spoke at the annual Celebrating Waipā gathering at the Sir Don Rowlands Centre, Karāpiro,…
When Te Awamutu Intermediate’s all-star kapa haka group was at the Celebrating Waipā event at Karāpiro last week it was hard not to notice year eight student Pokaia Heke. Pokaia has been recovering from a…
It took NZ Aero’s chief executive Stephen Burrows several years to fulfil his childhood passion of having a career in aviation. Back in the 1980s he would look up when planes flew over his family’s…
Waipā District Council chief Garry Dyet will effectively be sprinting to the finish line when he finishes at the end of June. The chief who started work as health inspector for Waipā County Council in…
Four historic Māori names for parks and reserves have been approved by Waipā’s Service Delivery committee – and more naming decisions await. Whare marama Reserve in Leamington, Pirongia’s Mātakitaki, Tūrata in Kihikihi and Waipuke, on…
Waipā’s My Mortgage, Treadlite NZ, Central Kids Early Education and the New Zealand Fieldays Society were among the major winners at last weekend’s Waikato Business awards. The awards, presented at a gala night at Claudelands,…
A Waipā foodbank is completing its busiest year on record. The Te Awamutu Combined Churches and Community Foodbank says the increasing need is straining its resources and putting additional pressure on volunteers. Coordinator Rita Middleton…
“Wow.” Put simply, that was Te Awamutu Business Chamber chief executive Shane Walsh’s reaction when he visited Te Awamutu Primary School last week. He was there with project manager Ken Huberts to survey the work…
Three Waipā roads and one street will have 4.3kms of pavement rehabilitated in the current construction season starting next month at a cost of $1.92 million. Hogan Road (Cambridge), Arapuni Road (Arapuni), Te Mawhai Road…
International rosarians Michael Marriott and Paul Zimmerman were quite taken by Te Awamutu when they dropped in with 20 international rose fans last week. Both offered fulsome praise for the town’s rose beds at the…
