Environment

Astros shoot for moon with World Space Week

With South Wairarapa and Carterton a newly accredited Dark Sky Reserve, it comes as no surprise that World Space Week is now…

Oct 2023

Environment

Under The Martinborough Stars

Most people know that the sun is a star, and the stars are other suns further away. But are they really like…

Oct 2023

Community News

Pump Track team hits big target

The Martinborough Pump Track project has hit the halfway point of fundraising for the project, with $125,000 of its quarter-million budget in…

Oct 2023

Sports

Featherston wrestlers continue winning

The penultimate tournament of the year the Wellington Regional Championships were held at Kapiti College on Saturday 9 September. A strong team…

Oct 2023

Politics

What Regional Council ‘really’ does – Part 2

By Adrienne Staples, Regional Councillor for Wairarapa In the August Star I posed the question what does the Regional Council ‘really’ do?…

Oct 2023

Environment

Native forest fringe started at corner

“We want this to be a dense stand of native bush in decades to come, an asset to the Golf Course and…

Oct 2023

Politics

Has the local body merger horse bolted?

South Wairarapa has pulled out of the region’s tri-council talks which, according to deputy mayor Melissa Sadler-Futter, was to look at key…

Oct 2023

Arts & Culture

Aratoi’s Current Exhibitions

A first for the Wairarapa is Te Papa’s touring exhibition – Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist | He Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa.…

Oct 2023

Arts & Culture

Booklover’s Trail App launch in Wairarapa

Some 13 Wairarapa book stores have worked together to produce a Booklover’s Trail App in what is a New Zealand first, modelled…

Oct 2023

Arts & Culture

‘Light Over Liskeard’ by Louis de Bernieres’

One of the perks of owning a bookshop is that you can get your hands on advance copies of books. Book reps…

Oct 2023

Community News

‘Women Remembered – Jesus’ Female Disciples’

First Church community hall will be the place to be later this month if you’re interested in learning about the role of…

Oct 2023

Community News

News from the First Church

As the rain beats down and high winds howl we’re told that Spring has sprung and benign weather is just around the…

Oct 2023

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