Business

Martinborough Business Association

Happy New Year! One month down already, can you believe it?!?! Summer vibes have been abundant over the past few weeks, with…

Feb 2022

Regular Features

Book review – One summer

Bill Bryson’s One Summer is set in America in 1927 a year of, as he puts it, reckless optimism and delirious energy.…

Feb 2022

Arts & Culture

Aratoi exhibitions

Aratoi’s late summer exhibitions focus on the region’s talented and eclectic artists, through the biennial competition New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty Wairarapa…

Feb 2022

Community News

Christmas

Wishing all our readers a happy and relaxing Christmas.

Dec 2021

Sports

Roll the Jack

With Rozanna Muriwai, as the new president of the Martinborough Bowling Club, the Club is humming. “When we returned from Bahrain 2…

Dec 2021

Sports

Rare mother – daughter success at South Wairarapa Karate Club

The South Wairarapa Okinawan Goju Ryu karate club is continuing to grow in both numbers and achievements, and it was great to…

Dec 2021

Community News

New Trustees lead Hau Ariki direction

Martinborough’s Hau Ariki Marae is unique. Opened in 1998, it’s a community marae, not affiliated directly to a particular iwi. Newly elected…

Dec 2021

Arts & Culture

Against All Odds

The Martinborough Music Festival was performed in October, despite being reorganised three times. “It was a bit of a rollercoaster with “Will…

Dec 2021

Environment

Under The Martinborough Stars

Some people see a face, a man, while others a woman holding a tree. I see a rabbit with long ears and…

Dec 2021

Politics

There’s always worse

If you think NZ politics is sometimes a bit chaotic, consider this: Sweden’s first female prime minister, the Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson,…

Dec 2021

Health & Wellbeing

Sunscreens don’t mix

UK and US researchers warn not to mix sunscreens. They tested five non mineral based sunscreens and found that when applied over…

Dec 2021

Club News

SOUTH WAIRARAPA REBUS CLUB

Meeting on 22 October, for the first time since July, the South Wairarapa Rebus Club discussed the near-term prospect of our having…

Dec 2021

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