September 2019

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Community News

Time for some accountability

Richard Rudman’s letter in the last issue of the Star rightly pointed out the over 5% rise in this year’s rates, which…

Sept 2019

Community News

Team Festival

“…it also helps to have a wicked management team that knows what they are doing” STAR, June 2019 wrote 19 years old…

Sept 2019

Regular Features

South Wairarapa Rebus Club

At our next meeting on Friday 27 September members will hear from John Reeve who spent his professional life as a regulatory…

Sept 2019

Community News

School Strike for Climate Change

It’s the year 2040, only 20 years from now. You have gone to work in a self-drive shared electric car using New…

Sept 2019

Community News

Reaching for the sky

Having a gliding club operating in close vicinity to their college offered a unique opportunity which Kuranui College realised and acted upon.…

Sept 2019

Community News

Poem – A bottle of cent

BY JOHN ANSELL Response to a 2016 creative writing workshop challenge from English professor and poet Harry Ricketts: In ten minutes, using the…

Sept 2019

Regular Features

News from First Church

Springtime and the Kirk Fair September has brought us noticeably longer days and we are enjoying again the fresh new growth of…

Sept 2019

Community News

Martinborough House and Garden Tour 2019

Saturday, 23 November, 10am–4pm The Wharekaka Auxiliary are organising a tour of some of Martinborough’s most extraordinary homes and gardens. Centred around…

Sept 2019

Sports Regular Features

Martinborough Golf Round-Up

Goodbye winter, see you next year; hello spring, and already the ends of the day are creeping slowly longer – hooray!! The…

Sept 2019

Community News

Martinborough company takes a cycle tour to France

The Martinborough based business Green Jersey Explorer tours recently supported a group of fourteen people to cycle tour across south west France…

Sept 2019

Community News

MARTINBOROUGH’s MUSE is MOVING ON

Yes, it’s true. After forty-five years in our town, Maree Roy, Martinborough Star’s regular muse, is moving South. This will mean taking…

Sept 2019

Regular Features

Maree’s musings

ONE for the BIRDS I’m probably (and hopefully) not alone in having a liking for our bird population in town. I know…

Sept 2019

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