Environment
Tree of the Month – Square Dwellers
Inside Martinborough Square, the leaves are well on the turn. Our extraordinary oaks, elms. limes and gums all appear in good condition…
Politics
Rates season is upon property-owners
While Quotable Value (QV) will release its review of all South Wairarapa property valuations mid-month, the local body rate-setting season is open…
Business
Screamer Siren new bird tool
Breaking; As The Star goes to print a new bird scaring tool has emerged in Ferry Road. Neighbours report a vineyard using…
Politics
Sewerage repair project stretches beyond year end?
Desludging Martinborough’s neglected and troublesome sewerage ponds – filled with 50 years of human detritis and never cleaned out since it opened…
Community News
Rainbow of colour saturates Considine Park
Considine Park was filled with colour tossers on Sunday 10 March, as the sun shone down to make it a perfect afternoon…
Politics
Average rates rise nationwide at 15 percent
I’m writing this column on 20 March and over the last few days it has definitely had an autumnal feel with cooler…
Club News
“Welcome to Marty” gets some Lions, Community Board work
Martinborough Lions Club has decided to step up its efforts to support the community’s new arrivals. Following a recent article in The…
Community News
Fifty long years of Wairarapa’s Consumer Advice Bureau
A spirited introduction by Masterton Intermediate School’s Kapa Haka group signaled an impassioned start to the 50-year celebrations of the Masterton-based WaiCAB.…
Environment
High Court grants extra coastal rights to Wairarapa Māori
Wairarapa Maori iwi and hapu have won a High Court action which recognises their customary rights over five areas of the South…
Community News
News from First Church
Horror: no cream on the Lenten apple pie. Lent, Easter, and those pivotal events celebrated in the annual Church calendar are now…
Environment
He Kōtare ready for busy 2024 planting season
He Kōtare Native Plant Nursery – a community venture on part of the former Featherston golf course – is gearing up for…
Arts & Culture
Remutaka Road as you never see it
Two black and white photography exhibitions are currently showing at Aratoi – including a dramatic scene on the Remutaka (then Rimutaka) Hill…
