Thanks to the generous assistance of Martinborough Vineyard and the Bottling Plant Martinborough School’s students have been able to take part in a less than usual Technology and Careers project – to produce and bottle a cask of Pinot wine.
The pupils involved chose and picked the grapes and watched and recorded the crushing [...]
Mate and Elizabeth Higginson recently celebrated their Golden Wedding with a week long reunion of their now far flung children and their families at Queensland’s Gold Coast.
Our congratulations Mate and Elizabeth.
There was an awful lot of water around Tuturumuri on Friday July 23rd.
While some ‘refugees’ bunked down with Tuturumuri and surrounding area residents during the big flood last Friday, some waded through chest high water to make their objective, and others, caught between 2 flooded areas where they could go neither forward nor back, [...]
Peta Aarsen, a pupil of Tuturumuri School, blitzed the field in the local Wairarapa Cross Country Under 10 girls events, winning all her Cluster School races, the Wairarapa Interschool Race and then the Wellington Regional Race at Waikanae.
The Regional event featured the top runners from Wairarapa, Hutt Valley, Wellington and Kapiti Coast schools.
Peta now travels [...]
It’s that time of year again when people are looking to Shape up For Summer!
Over the past 18 months Sally Brink, Weight Loss Consultant, has been running a series of Weight Loss Challenges in Martinborough. 112 people so far have participated and, between them, they have lost over 400kgs! Her focus is to reverse [...]
The Martinborough Town Hall Committee has had draft concept plans for the renovation of the Town Hall accepted by the Community Board and South Wairarapa District Council. A conservation report, funded by Lotteries, is being written by heritage architect, David Kernohan. Once this is completed a process of public consultation and more fundraising can begin.
While [...]
