Business
Months more disruption after ATM ram raid
November’s failed ram raid on Kitchener Cafe’s bank ATM has already cost nearby businesses six months of restricted trading as road cones…
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Council warned of cycle danger six years ago
Back in 2019 – long before widespread road speed woes surfaced – a Martinborough couple had identified the need to provide separate…
Community News
‘Lower Valley’ church heads into next 150 years
Some came in solid tweed jackets, others in tartan kilts and ties, muted trousers and bright dresses to launch their 150-year-old and…
Environment
Sedge planting at Lake Wairarapa after algae recedes
Restoration planting of an at-risk native species has resumed on Lake Wairarapa’s foreshore after the health threat posed by toxic algae receded…
Community News
How well do weknow people inour community?
A Guinness World Record holder for rowing across the Atlantic with three other women and a silver medal winner in the Commonwealth…
Community News
More talk about road speed limits
Road speed limits in South Wairarapa are back in consultation mode and on the redrawing board. A council memo has advised it…
Community News
Power Board swans can be a problem
Instead of their only “meet-ups” occurring at funerals, former workers at Wairarapa Electric Power Board (later Wairarapa Electricity then Powerco) decided a…
Environment
Forests, fossils on winter talks list
Aorangi Restoration Trust has put winter Public Talks back on the agenda – with fossils and forestry the initial topics for the…
History
Everyone is welcome all the time
Next time you wait for your order from Joe Kwong On Takeaways on Jellicoe Street you might like to think about the…
Environment
Kumara crops key but unreliable food for early Maori
Malnutrition and starvation likely stalked pre-European Maori settlements on Wairarapa’s south coast, particularly when kumara gardens yielded small or no crops so…
Community News
Letter of the Month – Weekly Square vigil for Gaza continues
For the last eighteen months some concerned Martinborough citizens have held a regular Wednesday morning vigil in support of the Palestinian people…
Environment
Hedgehogs, rats, possums fill local traps
Hedgehogs are hogging the traps of local pest control volunteers South Wairarapa Biodiversity Group, with 27 snared in the 30 days to…
