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Arts & Culture

From the Library

Printing service Printing your documents at our libraries has just become a lot easier! You can now send your printing directly from…

Dec 2022

Arts & Culture

Country Dog City Dog

Dec 2022

Arts & Culture

Book review – The good, the bad and a little bit stupid

It is not easy to write genuinely funny stories, Marina Lewycka is one of the few who have this skill. Her first…

Dec 2022

Arts & Culture

Aratoi Innovation Award winners 2022!

Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History are thrilled to have won the Harcourt Hamill Realty Award Innovation award in this year’s…

Dec 2022

Arts & Culture

Stats NZ 

OVER THE last 22 years mothers living in Clutha District had 111 sets of twins. At 2.3% of births the highest proportion…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

Storywalk

Once upon a time, an idea took hold in a marvellous community called Martinborough, whose young and old residents are book lovers.…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

Book review

Tom Scott Drawn Out Recently Tom Scott announced that after seventy years of writing and drawing cartoons he was retiring from print…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

Now we are five……

March 2020, when the first COVID lockdown hit, will surely have a permanent place in NZ history. For the next two years…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

Pipe Band Ready for Summer Season

The Wairarapa Fern and Thistle Pipe Band has a long and proud history in the region and looks forward to a vibrant…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

Maree’s Musings

HATS OFF! You may think that chat about hats is a strange topic for my column, but headgear has featured in the…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

 No time to visit the library? No problem – Libby’s here to help.

Libby is the library reading app that lets you access a collection of over 40,000 digital books, audiobooks, and magazines anytime, anywhere.…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

Boogeying to the Classics

“There were scores of kids up dancing”. Who would have thought that Mozart, Vivaldi, Shostakovich and Holst interspersed with themes from films,…

Oct 2022

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