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Meet your fire fighters
Patience is one of Andy Stuart’s many virtues. After moving from the farm to town a few years ago, he would hear…
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Hi from Plunket
Hi, not much to report for the Star this month, though there is a massive storm front about to hit the country…
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Cross Creek Blues Club
In June, Cross Creek Blues Club was privileged to host one of Wairarapa’s most influential musicians, Mr Lenny T (Te Whare). Lenny…
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A busy Fire Brigade
The newly formed Social Committee held its first event with the theme “Mid Winter Meet ‘n Greet” on Saturday 21st of June…
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Words of Wisdom
Vaclav Havel – long term political prisoner in Communist Czechoslovakia who went on to become the country’s first non-communist President. Prison taught…
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So that’s why
Before the invention of cameras one’s image was either sculpted or painted. George Washington’s portrait shows him standing behind a desk with…
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Papers past
Wairarapa Daily Times 1902 Wairarapa Racing Club. Summer Meeting. (By Our Special Reporter). Tho first day’s meeting of the abovo Club took…
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Always selling
The first advertising agency; William Taylor, founded in England 1786. Voiney Palmer first person to buy up newspaper space for advertising in…
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Library news
School holidays are on us again. The Winter Warmers Reading programme is in full swing and Martinborough children are reading and enjoying…
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Know your town
Honour and Justice The accompanying photo, taken in 1910, is of the Martinborough School cadets lined up in front of the school…
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From the Mayor
Council adopted its Annual Plan on 25 June. It was not without controversy. We received over one hundred and fifty submissions when…
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Did you know
THE PUBLIC planting at the Whangaimoana Dunes will be held on Saturday July 26th (not the 6th as stated in last month’s…
