Arts & Culture

Inside the song – and songsters

Get inside the mind of the singer-songwriter. Listen to the ideas inside the lyrics. Enjoy live music! Young artists to veterans. Trip…

Sept 2023

Health & Wellbeing

Save and keep fit: biking

Mainstream cyclists have been around for over two hundred years. They wear everyday clothing, obey the rules of the road and ride…

Sept 2023

Health & Wellbeing

Tulips for Parkinson’s Awareness

Parkinson’s Wairarapa will be at Longbush Cottage during its annual Tulip Festival over the weekend of 30th September -1st October. The Longbush…

Sept 2023

Sports

Surprise! Even golfers hate the wet

Martinborough’s golf course has seen some extreme weather in its long history but possibly not as much as this winter. It has…

Sept 2023

Health & Wellbeing

Tranzit puts up for ambulance station

Wellington Free Ambulance is delighted to welcome Tranzit as the latest Wairarapa business to support building a Wairarapa ambulance station. This New…

Sept 2023

Community News

Medical demand lifts emergency call-outs

Another month rolls around and we are rapidly closing in on our call numbers total for last year, this week clocking up…

Sept 2023

Arts & Culture

Library News

The Wairarapa branch of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community recently gifted the Wairarapa Library Service two copies of the Qu’ran printed in Arabic…

Sept 2023

Arts & Culture

Wairarapa “Bookshop Hop” returns

The Wairarapa Bookshop Hop returns for 2023 with the region’s 12 local booksellers plotting to make it a full weekend of bookish…

Sept 2023

Arts & Culture

Aratoi’s Current Exhibitions

Rita Angus in the Wairarapa!  A first for the Wairarapa is Te Papa’s touring exhibition – Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist |…

Sept 2023

Community News

Christmas Parade

The countdown to Christmas has begun. Santa’s sleigh is under construction at the Mens Shed. Santa himself is eating a high energy…

Sept 2023

Community News

First Church fashion fandango wins

We report with pride that Martinborough’s annual First Church Fashion Show fund-raiser, titled “Spring Fling,” has been a huge success. The event…

Sept 2023

Sports

Featherston Wrestling Club

For the first time in over 15 years Featherston Wrestlers represented New Zealand recently with Nate George and Angus Read taking part…

Sept 2023

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