Event News
Town pulls together to create month-long winter initiative: Pour & Explore Martinborough
This winter, Martinborough is bringing a splash of warmth and local flair to the colder months with the launch of a month-long…
Politics
Councillors’ complaint “frivolous” and costly to ratepayers
A serious Code of Conduct complaint by six South Wairarapa District Council (SWDC) members against Mayor Martin Connelly was found to be…
Arts & Culture
Aratoi “A Million Pixels”
New exhibitions open this Winter at Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History. The biennial exhibition “A Million Pixels” from the Wairarapa…
Arts & Culture
MADCAPs
For those of you who are new to town MADCAPs (Martinborough and District Company of Amateur Players) is our local theatre society.…
Club News
Celebrating 32 years of friendship and service
Wow! What a wonderful evening. Members, former members and partners, plus a delegation of five women from District 294 joined together to…
Politics
Third-class infrastructure underpins local water, transport woes
Frustration is the word widely used about the range of major infrastucture problems facing the South Wairarapa community – a frustration which…
Politics
Every minute countsin an emergency
Council and Wellington Free Ambulance have worked closely with the South Wairarapa District Council (SWDC) to install new Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs)…
Community News
News from First Church
Nothing like a free lunch of 3 courses to bind people together. Saturday 19 July was one such occasion – the Mid-Winter…
Sports
Golf Club News
The course has been cold, but the golf has been hot with great conditions given the frosts and wet weather. Huge thanks…
Politics
2025 ‘Pre-election report’ focus on key challenges?
District Council officials do not regard world-wide dominating climate events like floods, droughts, storms and wildfires as part of the most important…
Politics
Council rates increase slows just as planned CAPEX accelerates
The rates increase in South Wairarapa District has slowed this year – and at the same time, ratepayer investment in upgrading local…
Community News
Clothes Swap
When I arrived home on Friday, there were three large containers of coat-hangers on my back porch. I think it was possibly…
