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MARTINBOROUGH CAFES donated a dollar from every coffee served last Saturday towards the Kaikoura earthquake appeal. TRANSIT provided their buses free of…

Dec 2016

Community News

Everybody’s Broken

BY JOHN ANSELL

 Everybody’s right 
And everybody’s wrong
 Everybody’s weak
 And everybody’s strong Everybody’s trying 
And everybody fails
 And everybody’s carriage
 Will…

Dec 2016

Community News

Forty years service to Martinborough

Liz Hancock has announced her retirement from South Wairarapa Veterinary Services 40 years after her graduation as veterinarian. Liz moved to Martinborough…

Dec 2016

Community News

From the Mayor

I can’t believe we are now in December; the last two months have flown by. I would like to take this opportunity…

Dec 2016

Community News

Bureaucratic gobbledegook

Recently an advert posted by the Parliamentary Service appeared in the Newspapers. The Service was advertising for each of the following:  •…

Dec 2016

Community News

Call Out To Next Generation to Preserve Our History

Martinborough is a town and community that is extremely rich in history, much of which is held and preserved in our own…

Dec 2016

Community News

Celebrating Ninety years

Veronica McKee Celebrating 90 years Veronica McKee hosted family and friends to a dinner. Veronica’s family came from all about New Zealand…

Dec 2016

Community News

Compliments

The ‘Star’ team were flattered recently when contacted by a Swedish visitor who owns a stable of six small country newspapers. Bertil…

Dec 2016

Regular Features

Cooking corner

Beer & marmalade glazed ham with new potatoes with smoky aioli 1 cooked ham 330ml Stella Artois 150g orange marmalade 1 teaspoon…

Dec 2016

Sports

Bowling Club

The Martinborough Bowling Club has recommenced activities following it’s recent winter hiatus .A healthy number of bowlers turned out recently for the…

Dec 2016

Community News

A great holiday read

Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks The quirky title of this book caught my eye, and then the blurb on the back…

Dec 2016

Community News

An interesting survey

Local Government NZ have had Colmar Brunton do a large survey of NZ residents and businesses on local government. The initial results…

Dec 2016

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