They’re making a song and dance about Erika Ballantine. The 17-year-old Te Awamutu College student took home the 2024 Waikato Scout and Guide Gang Show Spirit Award for being a role model in the five…
They’re making a song and dance about Erika Ballantine. The 17-year-old Te Awamutu College student took home the 2024 Waikato Scout and Guide Gang Show Spirit Award for being a role model in the five…
Forming a multi council-controlled organisation for water services is the first step to creating a unitary authority in the Waikato. That’s the view of Waipā District Council Cambridge Ward member Mike Pettit who shared his…
Waikato-Tainui executive Glenda Taituha-Toka, originally from Piopio is a finalist in the Young Executive of the Year category of the Deloitte Top 200 Awards. The winners will be announced on December 5. The Rahui-Pōkeka (Huntly)…
Two trials where Waipā District Council uses fewer road cones and signs at worksites have resulted in reduced worksite congestion and less disruption to road users and residents. Fire main replacement in Te Awamutu –…
Dean Ballinger, who died at age 48 in 2022 after enduring Motor Neuron Disease, produced cartoon strips and comic zines for more than two decades. They ranged in style…
A Te Awamutu parking trial will demonstrate whether extended time restrictions will work for businesses and residents, says Waipā Transportation manager Bryan Hudson. The council confirmed last week it would double the parking time limit…
Almost everything about Sunday’s book launch at Ōhaupō School of Valerie Millington’s ‘Ellen of Denniston’ was intended to deliver a sense of time and place. And deliver it did, in spades. The hall, creaking with…
Fifty four Waipā residents are on the waiting list for one of the 93 pensioner housing units owned by the council. The biggest number is in Te Awamutu where there are 23 on the list…
A former police crisis negotiator and personal protection officer has been delivering conflict management training to Waipā District Council staff and elected members. Lance Burdett, who now works for Wellness, Awareness, Resilience and Negotiation (Warn)…
Waipā District Council is drafting a submission against the building of the Paewira waste to energy plant in Racecourse Road in Te Awamutu. Councillors who debated the plan last week said they believed the wrong…
