Regular Features

FIRE BRIGADE REPORT

By Chief Fire Officer Jake Hawkins Season’s Greetings from the Brigade, that arrived quickly, where did the year go? The Brigade would…

Dec 2022

Sports

Every sport catered for

By Kim Whiteman 2022 has been a busy year for Kuranui College sport and though term one was slowed slightly with Covid…

Dec 2022

Community News

Did you know

‘THE RELATIONSHIPS that people have with social media sites is pretty ludicrous: they’re all owned by billionaires and designed by expensively attuned…

Dec 2022

Arts & Culture

Country Dog City Dog

Dec 2022

Politics

Councillor Comment

Firstly, thank you to everyone who voted in the recent Local Government Election, the South Wairarapa had a healthy turnout and shows…

Dec 2022

Politics

Council trials soft plastics and battery recycling

South Wairarapa District Council is introducing soft plastics and battery recycling trials in collaboration with The Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme, Ā Mua,…

Dec 2022

Health & Wellbeing

Cooking corner – Christmas cookies

140g icing sugar, sieved 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 egg yolk 250g butter, cut into small cubes 375g plain flour, sieved To decorate 200g icing sugar, sieved edible food colouring, optional edible gold…

Dec 2022

Community News

Community Garden News

Wow! Another year of produce and now we are in what is probably our most productive phase of the year. Heaps of…

Dec 2022

Environment

Coke sponsors Cop

It’s either madness or genius for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to announce the world’s largest fossil fuel plastic…

Dec 2022

Environment

Charge for polluting cars to cover whole of London from August

Drivers must pay £12.50 per day if their vehicles do not meet requirements on cleaner emissions A £12.50 (aprox. $25.00) daily charge…

Dec 2022

Business

Business Assn. News

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” as Mr Bublé would say. The Christmas garlands are up and this year with…

Dec 2022

Arts & Culture

Book review – The good, the bad and a little bit stupid

It is not easy to write genuinely funny stories, Marina Lewycka is one of the few who have this skill. Her first…

Dec 2022

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