Community News
Announcing: “The Social Crust” hits town
Martinborough’s Food Bank has moved to 45 Princess Street, adopted a Greytown friend, expanded its activities and taken a new name: “The…
Community News
Public Access Emergency Defibrillator
Martinborough Mens Shed are working with Wellington Free Ambulance and seeking community support for the funding of a public access Automatic Emergency…
Politics
SWDC hits the brake on “Amalgamation”
On Wednesday, 23 August the Wairarapa Times Age ran the front page headline “Calls for Amalgamation” and discussed how there was a…
Arts & Culture
Gumboot Glamour Creativity Wins
The 2023 “Glamour & Gumboots” competition has been adjudged another huge success, with the winners only recently revealed. The quirky competition that…
Arts & Culture
Maree’s Musings
Party Lines It’s coming up to election time again. To me, it doesn’t seem long since the last one. We’re…
Politics
Council backtracks on Library hours
The community spoke AND the South Wairarapa District Council responded – partly. After weeks of anguish over reduced and puzzling library open…
Arts & Culture
“Fine musicianship, passion and vitality”
Wenhong Luo says emphatically that none of her family is musical: “Not at all. They all work in the aerospace industry which…
Politics
One small step out of the poop
Martinborough Ponds sewerage system has taken a small step towards complying with a formal notice to cease-and-desist all new sewage connections after…
Community News
How well do we know people in our community
65th Wedding Anniversary. Bill and Mavis married on the 16th of August 1958. They met in the mid-1950s. Bill was an apprentice…
Community News
Not yet going to the dogs?
The South’s three towns each has a dog park of fenced-off open land where owners can take their mutts for exercise. Other…
Business
Dog box wins “Super Idea” award
Yes, it’s the council’s brand new dog pound, located in Featherston. At $114,00 a kennel, it cost $456,000 to build and it’s…
Community News
Is Esther Street your street?
The folks in Esther Street have developed a great neighbourhood tradition that brings them together as well as contributing to the wider…
