Regular Features
Know your town MacGregor’s Glasgow House
Alec MacGregor erected the building now know as Kitchener’s in 1906. Alec was born in Glasgow in 1872. He entered the fabric…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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Letters
Rate rises The latest SWDC rates newsletter congratulates the Council on a rates increase of 5.48% — which it describes as “slightly…
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…
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…
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…
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…
