Arts & Culture

 No time to visit the library? No problem – Libby’s here to help.

Libby is the library reading app that lets you access a collection of over 40,000 digital books, audiobooks, and magazines anytime, anywhere.…

Nov 2022

Community News

Wharekaka News

As Spring edges toward summer activities at Wharekaka are ramping up. We are all energized by the sunshine and spring blooms. The…

Nov 2022

Sports

Martinborough Golf Report

After all the rain over the last few weeks the course is looking stunning and has dried out incredibly quickly. We are…

Nov 2022

Club News

Inner Wheel Club of South Wairarapa 

Three committee members travelled to Palmerston North for a Inner Wheel District Meeting. We took a boot load of household goods to…

Nov 2022

Event News

Wairarapa College Centenary – Please help us spread the word

The Wairarapa College community are excited to be celebrating 100 years in 2023 from the 10th to 12th March and we are…

Nov 2022

Community News

The pig named Generosity

Or Genny for short, and she’s a sign of just how the community has rallied behind the Martinborough Foodbank since it started…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Boogeying to the Classics

“There were scores of kids up dancing”. Who would have thought that Mozart, Vivaldi, Shostakovich and Holst interspersed with themes from films,…

Oct 2022

Politics

Councillor comment and farewell

It is time to hang up my Councillor hat and embrace the activities that retirement allows one to do – gardening, travel…

Oct 2022

Community News

How Well Do We Know People in Our Community?

Marco De Groot Originally from De Bilt, Utrecht, a small town in the Netherlands, Marco grew up with a passion for sport.…

Oct 2022

Environment

Te Kopi in Palliser Bay (Kawa Kawa)

A bit of digging recently unearthed some little-known but quite exciting Wairarapa colonial history. Some ancient Māori settlement, inter-tribal warfare, shipwrecks, a…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

WLS Evening Book Club

We came to Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures for the octopus. But while the readers of the Wairarapa Library Service’s Evening…

Oct 2022

Community News

Wharekaka News

The past few weeks have been busy with many meetings, at Wharekaka, and with other community groups, to discuss Wharekaka’s future. We…

Oct 2022

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