Cambridge News NZ

1 week ago | cambridgenews.nz | Jesse Wood

Secondary school enviro leaders from across Waipā will attend Waikato Regional Council’s annual climate summit at Te Awamutu College’s O-Tāwhao Marae next month. Cambridge schools are among those attending. “Enviro schools has deep roots in the Waikato. It was actually piloted in the Waikato over 20 years ago. The pilot schools in Hamilton are still going strong,” Enviro schools regional coordinator Michelle Daly said. “Enviro schools is all about creating a healthy, peaceful sustainable world.

2 weeks ago | cambridgenews.nz | Roy Pilott

Cambridge, off to a sound start in the Northern League football championship, will look for a second successive win when it hosts Ōtorohanga in the top Waikato club league on SaturdayThe league, an amalgam of last year’s Southern Conference championship and Waikato first division, threw up a couple of surprises last weekend. Among them, for at least one coach, was news that the competition allows rolling substitutions in a game  – enabling players to come off and go back on again.

2 weeks ago | cambridgenews.nz | Jesse Wood

Both Waipā teams fell short in the opening round of premier club rugby on Saturday, and both return to Hamilton this weekend looking to get off the mark. On a day when four Hamilton clubs scored three wins and a draw against their country cousins, Hautapu lost at Marist 25-20 and Te Awamutu Sports was beaten 27-22 at Old Boys. First five-eighth Dillon Martin was on debut for the Cambridge side after transferring after several seasons at Te Awamutu.

2 weeks ago | cambridgenews.nz | Mary Anne Gill

It was the Mane Event in Cambridge on Sunday where crowd favourite therapy pony Monty led everyone a merry walk to Riding for the Disabled Association’s fundraiser at its Alpha St headquarters behind the Gaslight Theatre. Stalls, live music and pop up stalls kept the crowd entertained as did New Zealand Thoroughbred’s racehorse simulator, the first of its kind in the southern hemisphere and a valuable tool to promote a career in the racing industry.

2 weeks ago | cambridgenews.nz | Mary Anne Gill

Significant changes to a proposal by RS Sand to establish a sand quarry on the southern outskirts of Cambridge has delayed the final decision another month. A hearing before commissioners Richard Blakey (chair), Ngaire Phillips, and Tim Manukau in Waipā District Council’s Te Awamutu chambers was adjourned part way through the third day last week.