NewsBank (Te Awamutu Courier)

Do better or risk getting your bin privileges removed. That is the message Waipā District Council will be sending in 2025 to the small percentage of residents causing $360,000 in recycling contamination costs each year.

The way is still wide open for Waipā District Council to work with fellow local authorities to deliver water services — either as part of Waikato Waters Done Well or by collaborating with Hamilton City and Waikato District councils.

After six decades of powering Te Awamutu, the 11kV underground power cables along Racecourse Rd have been upgraded.

Cycling New Zealand has confirmed the Elite Road Cycling National Championships will be based in Waikato for two years from 2026.

A chance to go shopping at The Warehouse in Te Awamutu brought an unexpected windfall for a visitor to our town when her ticket was drawn to win first prize in the Rosetown Lions Sleigh Raffle.

Local disability support provider ConneXu is helping to shine a light on hidden disabilities by promoting the use of the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower lanyard in the Waipā community.

When John Warburton learnt NZME had proposed to close the newspaper his grandfather had founded he was shocked.

Five years ago, I returned to Te Awamutu to take up a role as a multimedia journalist for the Te Awamutu Courier.

My brother Mark Braunias, a well-known artist who painted very colourful, very strange abstract shapes, died on Tuesday afternoon at Waikato Hospital. He was 69.

Te Awamutu Sports’ Latrell Smiler-Ah Kiong won the Sky Television Fans Try of the Year accolade at the 2024 ASB Rugby Awards last week.

With a heavy heart, it’s time to say farewell to the Te Awamutu Courier (formerly Waipa Post) after 114 years.

Te Awamutu College Rugby Club has announced a significant partnership with Stone Real Estate, signing a three-year platinum sponsorship deal.

Most Te Awamutu area residents would have been shocked by the news that Te Awamutu Courier is closing down. It is hard to believe that the newspaper that has been a constant in our lives for as long as any of us can remember, will no longer be with us.

News that the almost-114-year-old Te Awamutu Courier, arguably New Zealand’s finest community newspaper, was closing hit home akin to a death in the family.

Welcome to the last front page of the Te Awamutu Courier. Readers may have been expecting a tribute to the paper - but since I have been the editor I have had a rule: 100-year-olds have the front page - so meet Claire Tombs.

Ihave been thinking about how to write this for some time and it turns out I don’t have much more to say.

Kiwi Searancke is a name synonymous with rugby union in Te Awamutu and the Waikato.

Kiwi Searancke is a name synonymous with rugby union in Te Awamutu and the Waikato.

Te Awamutu Marist Cricket Club played Pirongia in the Peter Bennett Cup final on Saturday at Castleton Park.

Standing in the street a couple of weeks ago, taking photos of floats, I watched the familiar and distinctive, by his flowing silver locks, figure of Dean Taylor as he stood in the centre of the road, camera at the ready as he recorded the 2024 Te Awamutu Rotary Christmas Parade for the Courier, as he has done for many years now.

New Zealand music’s elder statesmen, the NZ Highwaymen, are touring in 2025. After two sold-out tours in 2023 and 2024, these legendary musicians are ready to once again hit the road.

Te Awamutu’s Jono Gibbes will add his expertise to the Gallagher Chiefs as an assistant coach for the upcoming 2025 DHL Super Rugby Pacific season.

It seems a sad thing to be doing, closing down 14 community newspapers around the North Island.

Waikato-based Stuart Reid, 79, has scored lower or equal to his age more than 100 times in 18-hole rounds and has won his local Ngāhinapōuri Golf Club senior championships across seven decades.

As summer approaches and Kiwis get out on the water, Coastguard New Zealand is urging the use of lifejackets and offering an incentive to wear them.

Te Awamutu’s Cornerstone Trust has been raising funds since 2005 to provide financial assistance to promising young sportspeople from the region to realise their potential, and the 2024 annual luncheon continued that proud tradition.

2024, like every other year, has raced by, but it has been a year with a difference for those of us involved in the Presbyterian Church at 80 Mutu St.

A significant shift is taking place in the Waikato real estate landscape, with the Hagan family, who have proudly served the local community for over 30 years, introducing the highly regarded Stone Real Estate brand.

Te Awamutu Good Companions Club recently celebrated a golden milestone when it held its monthly dance.

At last Saturday’s Christmas parade, Te Awamutu Rotary Club celebrated the largest number of float entries since it started running the annual event.