Sandcastles and Sundry stuff I’m over election fever, and probably you are too. Something completely different was called for. But sandcastles? The…
Spring has sprung and so too has the Wairarapa events calendar, with an incredible line-up of festivals and experiences to welcome in…
For a small town, Martinborough has a lot of gin distilleries and the newest is opening its doors to host a gin…
Martinborough’s Toy Library is planning to submit a float for the Christmas Parade, and will be running a koha-based Santa’s Grotto where…
Commitment. Service. Resilience. These are three of the principles which guide father David Kershaw and son Conor Kershaw as the family business…
1872 – 73 In the beginning … In 1872, George ‘Tiny’ Pain, the entrepreneurial travelling salesman son of settler parents, reached agreement…
People have been very complimentary about the new P & K Supermarket and retaining some of the old brickwork to enhance the…
A three-day trek from Wellington in 1865 saw then 19-year-old George Pain arrive in the Wairarapa, where he found work as a…
We have now completed our Emergency Resilience Series _ a collaboration between WREMO (Wgtn Regional Emergency Management Office), SWDC and the Community…
I feel as if this is the first of these articles that I have written when the weather was fine. The recent…
U.S. Marines on furlough from Guadalcanal with malaria were deployed to Martinborough after the 1942 earthquakes (Magnitude 7.6) to help demolish parts…
During and after WW11 imported Middle East dates were always infested with weevils. Staff would break up the cakes of dates and…
