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Pantry Challenge brings inspiration to food parcel ingredients
When chef Ant North’s Greytown-based business, Ant North Catering, shuddered to a halt during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, it was easy…
February 2021
Previous Months
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News from First Church
We give thanks for everything that changes and challenges us for surprises and holidays, the unexpected meeting with a friend, the chance…
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Maree’s musings
SLEEPING it OFF 2021 is well under way, and I wonder how your New Year Resolutions are going? My only one is…
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Martinborough Lions got into the Christmas Spirit
Martinborough Lions Club wound up the year by partnering with the Foodbank to fund, assemble and deliver some nice Christmas Hampers of…
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Did you know
THERE IS NO CHARGE to enjoy a swim at any of the Council’s three town swimming complexes. A PERFECT summer day is…
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Electric vehicles close to ‘mass adaption’
Electric vehicles are close to the “tipping point” of rapid mass adoption thanks to the plummeting cost of batteries, experts say. Global…
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Major Contract Win For New Martinborough-based Vocational Training Business
WoMoLife has been awarded a $1.36m contract to train 150 new and upskill a further 120 existing shearers and wool handlers through…
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Early settlers
John William Kershaw John Kershaw was born at Timaru South Canterbury in March 1873 . He was educated at Mount Cook school…
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FIRE BRIGADE REPORT
Well a New Year is with us, and hopefully this year will bring a resumption of some of the more normal activities.…
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Know your town
Parks Neither JD Baird’s 1870 Waihinga plan or John Martin’s 1879 Martinborough plan set aside land for parks or cemetery. The Martinborough…
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Lifetime astronomer honoured
A lifetime of amateur astronomy stretching from the late 1950s for Wairarapa Astronomical Society president Darrell Ramsey has been honoured by fellow…
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Royal Family net favourability
An interesting poll from YouGov on the net favourability for members of the royal family. In order, they are:
