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The publisher of the Te Awamutu News and Cambridge News has added another print masthead to the company’s stable. Good Local Media announced this week it had bought the Waikato Business News. Good Local owner David Mackenzie said the Waikato Business News had a trusted and respected name and was a good fit with Good Local’s
existing publications. “The Waikato Business News has been publishing for over 25 years serving the Waikato business community well – we look forward to building on this,” he said. “With the significant depth and experience of our staff we can add a lot of value to the publication. We excel in producing high quality relevant local
editorial content and will do the same for the Waikato Business News.” The move is the most significant for the company since June 2019 when it launched the Te Awamutu News as a sister paper to the Cambridge News. “Our existing Cambridge and Te Awamutu clients who work with advertising director Janine Davy will have an opportunity to reach
the Hamilton and wider Waikato market and many of our advertisers already use the Waikato Business News.” Good Local Media publications are edited by Roy Pilott, who spent almost four decades in senior roles with the South Waikato News, Waikato Times and the Taranaki Daily News. Its senior writer, Mary Anne Gill, has a similar track
record on both community and daily publications and has collected a host of national awards. She is also a former business editor at the Waikato Times. Davy has worked with Mackenzie for more than a decade on daily and community newspapers across the country. PICTURED RIGHT: David Mackenzie
Paua gets a library booking
A Cambridge architect whose work features in several houses and buildings around the town has won the contract to provide a concept of what a new library might look like. Antanas Procuta and his Hamilton-based firm Paua Architects will undertake a feasibility study using the $250,000 Waipā District Council secured from the government’s Better Off Fund. Paua’s work in the town includes the Cambridge Police Station, Papillon Townhouse, Pencarrow House, St Peter’s Church, Le Quesnoy Place and Cambridge Park. Procuta is a Cambridge Town Hall trustee charged with activating the venue into a community hub in the heart of the town and is also on Waipā District Council’s heritage committee. The council said in a statement the feasibility study would
begin immediately and provide “necessary up-front thinking” before any investment decisions were made. Cambridge Community Board has identified a new library as its top priority and recently captured more than 500 responses to a fourmonth survey it ran. Chair Jo Davies-Colley said the board was not involved in the selection of Paua Architects but was thrilled with the choice. “Just looking at their work around Cambridge – we’re sure that whatever they come up with will be in keeping with that particular look which fits into our town. “We want it to be a place where everyone feels welcome.” DaviesColley said if it was built on a new site – it is currently based at the council’s service centre in Wilson Street – it would need to be central. “We’d like as Cambridge
stretches further that (the library) remains in the CBD.” Libraries have undergone a mini boom worldwide since the pandemic, something which did not surprise her. “People like to come back to those communal places, be in their village, in their comfortable space.” That is why the board pushed for the removal of library book fines, said Davies-Colley.
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