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Fire Brigade Report – Call-out milestone: Six each week

Martinborough’s Volunteer Fire Brigade crews reached the 150 call-out milestone in May. That’s an average of 6 calls per week across our…

Jun 2024

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Spring build for Pump Track

Martinborough Youth Trust are happy to thank a number of generous donors and acknowledge pledges from Toast Martinborough and Pain Farm which…

Jun 2024

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Always fun in Gumboots

Winter fun, fashion and philanthropy for a great cause _ and don’t forget your gumboots! The “much-anticipated” Glamour & Gumboots fundraiser from…

Jun 2024

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Mooving advice never too late

Mooving Day heralds the start of the dairy season each year on 1 June (King’s Birthday) and South Wairarapa District Council asks…

Jun 2024

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Early winter weeding and water chore

As a favour the council is noting it’s time to clear the debris and overgrowth from your South Wairarapa water meters for…

Jun 2024

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Letters to the Editor – Vineyard Gas Guns

Dear Ed: I refer to Paul Sara’s letter to the editor in the May edition. Much of Paul’s letter is not germane…

Jun 2024

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Letter of the Month

Dear Ed: I refer to the article on P7 of last month’s Star which featured a small group of people in Martinborough…

Jun 2024

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News from First Church

First Church is putting its fund-raising best foot forward with a triple dip of events catering for all Martinborough tastes. First up:…

Jun 2024

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Troublesome Hinekura Road formally re-opened – for now

Hinekura Road _ a 23-kilometer stretch of mostly narrow, winding, hilly and massively poor condition access road to rural farmlands east of…

May 2024

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Letters:

Vineyard gas guns  Dear Ed: We moved here two years and the bird guns were going off as we viewed the house.…

May 2024

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Palestine war vigil attracts toots, waves in Square

A protest group holding Palestinian flags, posters reading “Toot for Gaza,” “Genocide” and “Free Palestine” is winning solid support – with tooting,…

May 2024

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News from First Church

If you should find yourself driving semi-aimlessly up the east coast on the Ponatahi or equivalent charming back road, you will be…

May 2024

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