It’s from the believe or not files – an Anko saucepan from Kmart won the race to be the Consumer Institute’s Top of the Pots. Consumer delivered the news last week, leaving owners of the…
It’s from the believe or not files – an Anko saucepan from Kmart won the race to be the Consumer Institute’s Top of the Pots. Consumer delivered the news last week, leaving owners of the…
Housing is such a significant issue for Waipā that the newly-elected council has escalated its importance by establishing a new housing sub-committee. The decision was made at this week’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee and…
We Say This is the new view from on high of rural Waipā. These shade covers block views at ground level – and for that reason residents across the district are up in arms as…
“Education has always been a core purpose,” Jim Mylchreest says of Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain. So it was fitting that at the opening of the $846,000 Manu Korokii Education Centre on the maunga last week the…
A Waipā student is using spare time ahead of her Wintec classes resuming by helping collect donations for victims of the Auckland floods. Charlotte Peake and her sister Mikaela are collecting items daily to deliver…
About 100 supporters, sponsors and iwi marked the opening of Sanctuary Mountain’s new education centre this morning. Manu Korokii Education Centre has been 20 years in the making and opens a new chapter in teaching…
Most objects in Te Awamutu Museum’s collection are safe in climate-controlled storage following the sudden decision to evacuate the museum’s Roche Street building three months ago. Uenuku, a taonga of Tainui and the most valuable…
Susan O’Regan was only days into her new job as Waipā mayor late last year when she sought a briefing with the council’s Emergency Management team. “There were a handful of things that were very…
A century after a community campaign saw the establishment of Anzac Green in Te Awamutu, the same spirit is alive and well as plans proceed to save its flagpole. The Green, originally the Memorial Triangle,…
Waipā staff came to the rescue of southern neighbours Waitomo during the Anniversary Weekend storms which pummelled the upper North Island. Little damage was reported in Waipā district itself where the stormwater system was able…
