Reading needn’t be a solitary activity. Neither does the pleasure have to end when you turn over the last page. Every book…
U.S.-based Foley Wines has taken over Toast Martinborough, ingesting the long-running festival into its growing portfolio of wine, food and hospitality activities…
DarkSky, the international body responsible for world-wide dark sky accreditation, is offering accommodation providers the chance to be accredited to their just-launched…
A record field of 172 players, including 43 professionals from New Zealand and Australia, battled light winds, warm temperatures and even light…
In February the local Lions Club invited me for dinner and asked me to speak for a short time on the “State…
With a mission to support and promote the interests of businesses in Martinborough, the committee works to create a vibrant and thriving…
It has been a busy start to the year with over 60 calls already – an average of 20 a month –…
Some 35 Maori artifacts/taonga Maori collected by late Martinborough businessman George Pain, likely from the South Wairarapa region, are on exhibition in…
The Red Cone Brigade marched onto Jellicoe St recently as contractors dug out 200-plus meters of old gutter and replaced it. Lines…
Vintage is a loaded word in any wine region at this time of the year, let alone one that is having an…
Long grass is a key feature in incidental fires which have sparked across the dry, dusty, drought-hit Wairarapa since before Christmas. Despite…
Michael was raised in Auckland, attending St Peters College where he loved playing both cricket in the summer months, and rugby in…
