Community News

Funding boost pushes Wairarapa’s starry skies towards international recognition

A $100,000 investment from the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will take the Wairarapa a step closer to gaining international recognition. The investment…

Aug 2019

Regular Features

Community Garden News

It is said “that one of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a packet of seeds and a spade”, and this…

Aug 2019

Community News

NZSO Concertmaster in Line-up for Martinborough Music Festival

“A curvy Italian lady with a rounded belly and back”. No, not the description of some valuable Rubenesque masterpiece but rather, the…

Aug 2019

Sports

Martinborough Ladies’ Hockey Club

The Martinborough Ladies Hockey Club are having a successful season in the Women’s 2 grade this year. Having retained most of last…

Aug 2019

Sports

Kahutara School Hockey

Kahutara School have managed to enter a total of three teams in various Wairarapa Hockey Association junior grades played at Clareville Hockey…

Aug 2019

Sports

Football

Usually every month I write about the exploits and endeavours of our Junior and Senior teams for the past month. Sadly after…

Aug 2019

Regular Features

Letters

Rate rises The latest SWDC rates newsletter congratulates the Council on a rates increase of 5.48% — which it describes as “slightly…

Aug 2019

Regular Features

Did you know

24,767 PEOPLE tried to vote at the last election only to find that they had not enrolled. 7.6% of New Zealanders who…

Aug 2019

Regular Features

Cooking Corner

Spicy beef, kiwifruit and avocado Ingredients 150 gr Beef fillet (in one piece) 3 golden kiwifruit 1 ripe but firm avocado 1…

Aug 2019

Community News

The 2019 Studio Italia Cinema Italiano Festival comes to Wairarapa

“La famiglia è il centro di noi” Family is at the heart of us Wairarapa will host the Italian Film Festival from the 8 th…

Aug 2019

Community News

Community of Cool

“I think Martinborough is a cool place to have a jazz festival. And it’s because we have a fantastic, supportive community that…

Aug 2019

Community News

Community Board notes

We are approaching Local Government Elections and, as indicated in my April Star column I will not be seeking relection after six…

Aug 2019

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