Arts & Culture
Airforce jazz orchestra headlines local scene
Jazz in Martinborough has booked the Royal New Zealand Airforce Jazz Orchestra as its feature act for 2025. “We’re delighted to be…
Arts & Culture
Music to bring world to Martinborough
Nine years ago, the idea of an annual classical music festival in Martinborough may have seemed far-fetched. Not anymore. The inspiration for…
Arts & Culture
Do rainbows display5, 6 or 7 colours?
How many colours do you see in a rainbow? A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion…
Arts & Culture
The Star Book Review – The Comeback Code by Jake Bailey
Ten years ago, Jake Bailey got himself up and out of his hospital bed, into a hall filled with his cohort of…
Arts & Culture
“Over here …” U.S. Marines in Wairarapa
In 1943, Wairarapa was home to two battalions of U.S. Marines. Who were these Marines, where did they come from, and what…
Arts & Culture
Journey through Tango, World, Classical Music
As well as impeccably-performed music at a Mulled Wine Concert, audiences have come to expect the unexpected and this is especially true…
Politics
Minimum extra spend in hard times
During May, councillors considered submissions for both the Long Term Plan and Local Water Done Well. For the LTP, councillors resolved that next…
Community News
Burnside Church – “icon of a community”
It began with a local farmer donating an acre of land and his daughter riding her horse across the district to raise…
History
Centenarian’s birthday marked by late pontiff
Even as Pope Francis was lying in State at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome and thousands filed past his coffin, his soft…
Community News
New sewer connections date remains mystery
Desludging work on Martinborough’s wastewater pond has finally started but there’s no update on when the town will permit new sewer connections.…
Community News
Easter “ascension” balloons came via Greytown
While Martinborough Golf Course was the ear-marked ascension point, winds dictated the 15 balloon Easter fly-over of Martinborough began in a Greytown…
