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Pirinoa’s enduring Burnside Church –1875 to 2025
Burnside Church in Pirinoa celebrates its 150th commemoration on Sunday, 11 May. While other churches transform into housing or community centres, the…
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Parenting Workshop series starts well
Families have been embracing a notable lineup of parenting workshops designed to support and empower caregivers. With a strong start to the…
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Wairarapa trains disrupted another10 days
Just when rail commuters had recovered from a 40+ day rail travel disruption, KiwiRail has tossed in another 10-day block of mainly…
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Explosion of yellow heads at inaugural Sunflower Festival
A community education and wetland restoration project just outside Martinborough, Ruamāhanga Farm Foundation, brought the gold of summer to its regenerating soils…
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“Tsunami-proof” emergency containers for coastal groups
Three coastal communities are being gifted containers of critical resources in South Wairarapa to help with emergency recovery “immediately after a disaster.” …
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How well do we know people in our community?
Beijing, butter and books. What’s the connection between these three words? Yulia Potts is a local artist, illustrator and teacher. She’s originally…
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Clothing Swap events go monthly
Clothing Swap organisers report they had a great selection of clothes in February and plan to hold the events on the third…
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Lawn Tennis Club latest local AED site
The newest local Automated External Defibrillator has been installed at the Martinborough Lawn Tennis Club, just inside the gate at the corner…
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Re-plugging away at the leaks?
On Monday 3rd February 2025 Wellington Water and their Traffic Management partners carried out another water pipe leakage repair on Cologne Street…
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News from First Church
There is a principle of public finance which we hear about daily from Nicola Willis: the Micawber Principle that wasfirst unveiled by…
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Ruakokopatuna International QuizNight: FUN-raiser
A balmy Wairarapa evening. One of the many all-time good Ruakokopatuna people had cut the grass. Tables were set. The barbeque was…
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Tennis Club sports latest Automated External Defibrillator
Martinborough Lawn Tennis Club (MLTC) is having an AED (Automated External Defibrillator – aka heart restarter) – installed just inside the gate…
