A councillor has broken ranks over proposals to charge ratepayers a raft of new fees to raise money. Mike Montgomerie was vocal in his opposition after workshop talks about cutting community grants, increasing fees and…
A councillor has broken ranks over proposals to charge ratepayers a raft of new fees to raise money. Mike Montgomerie was vocal in his opposition after workshop talks about cutting community grants, increasing fees and…
Papers and presentations Waipā councillors are privy to at public workshops are not shared in advance or during the meetings. While that makes it virtually impossible for the public to follow what the councillors are…
The committee behind planning for the $33.1 million Te Ara Wai Museum in Te Awamutu met this week but, as with previous meetings this year, most of it was behind closed doors. The meeting took…
Te Awamutu landlords have rejected taking on a special rate which would have provided funding to promote retail business in the town centre. Voting forms went out to 96 business owners, and when voting closed…
Readers of Te Awamutu-Kihikihi Community Board agendas get questions and answers and a debate all in one go. Board chair Ange Holt’s monthly reports are now followed by a “staff response” where comments are made…
Each year The News in Cambridge and Te Awamutu asks readers to help us select two very special people. The News person of the year award is entering is fourth year as a twin award…
The Taiea te Taiao project has completed 200,000 plantings in its first two years. The initiative, founded in 2021 and funded and planned out for the next five years, seeks to establish an ecological corridor…
Pirongia School called in a couple of trailblazers for last week’s second running of the school’s Young Farmer Competition. Principal Kelly Bicknell invited 2023 Young Farmer of the Year winner Emma Poole and her husband…
It’s the end of an era as Ōhaupō School prepares to say goodbye to its long-serving principal, Sue McLocklan. When she closes the door to her principal’s office for the last time at the end…
A partnership between New Zealand’s largest rural tours’ operator and the Cambridge i-Site will result in a significant boost to Waipā’s tourism industry and give farmers an added income stream. And the idea came from…
