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Lots more take the plunge

Visitor records have tumbled at Waipā community facilities in Te Awamutu and Cambridge. For the first time more than 400,000 people visited the Te Awamutu Events Centre and Perry Aquatic Centre in Cambridge in a…

Wetland project ends

A debut project aimed at giving Lake Rotopiko’s roosting pest birds the heave-ho has come to an end. By making the Ōhaupō lake a less attractive stopover, millions of birds – mostly starlings and sparrows…

Seniors have a say

Te Awamutu Grey Power is asking Waipā District Council to embrace its Age Friendly Policy with quarterly meetings for seniors. Te Awamutu Grey Power is asking Waipā District Council to embrace its Age Friendly Policy…

News in brief

Five go burgling Three more incidents where a group of five thieves in a stolen vehicle carried out a burglary in Waipā have been reported by police. The incidents were at the Spark shop in…

Remembering the ‘darkest day’

A service at Te Awamutu’s Anzac Green on Saturday will commemorate one of New Zealand’s darkest days in World War One. The half-hour October 12 service will mark this country’s losses at Passchendaele in Flanders,…

Southern Links on fast track

Nineteen Waikato projects – including Southern Links and Cambridge to Piarere roads – were among the 149 projects released for inclusion in the Government’s one-stop-shop Fast Track Approvals Bill. Southern Links is one of the…

A design for challenging times

Elevate Ōtorohanga’s first economic development forum will look at “challenging times” and feature keynote speakers including Shamubeel Eaqub, Simon Perry, Honey Hireme-Smiler and Andrew Hoggard. “We’ve recognised that times are challenging, so we’ve planned a…

Pirongia is bewitched

Pirongia School is enjoying a rocking run of success across its arts sphere. Two of their Jump Jam teams scooped the top prize in their categories in last month’s regional competition, and as a result,…

News … in brief

Rally bid declined Organisers of the Targa Rally have been dealt a blow by a Waitomo District Council decision to decline an application for road closures. Councillor Janette Osborne told The News the council had…

Councillor drives rideshare app

Clare St Pierre has presented a plan to reduce the cost to people of car trips. Speaking at the public forum in a personal capacity at September’s Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board meeting, the…

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