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…

Sept 2023

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…

Sept 2023

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…

Sept 2023

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…

Sept 2023

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…

Sept 2023

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…

Sept 2023

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…

Sept 2023

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…

Sept 2023

Club News

Anybody at Rebus up for “Taking the Jump?”

“Taking the Jump,” a European approach to local action to control climate change based on behavioural science, has been outlined to South…

Sept 2023

Politics

Did they do well? How we rate the SWDC

The council, its members and services have been put under the public’s scrutiny _ and the results, unlike a beauty contest, are…

Sept 2023

Regular Features

Pirinoa kids learn in “our place”

By Principal Richard Goodyear Imagine if your classroom as a child contained historic cemeteries, pa sites, lakes, wetlands, streams, rivers and forests.…

Community News

Sprouts, rhubarb save Community Garden

As many will know, the location of the Community Garden is on the damper side of Martinborough. This winter has provided us…

Sept 2023

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