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Alan Clayton – Luthier 

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As part of its music education outreach programme, the Martinborough Music Festival (MMF) team decided to include a session for adults. Nick Arnold, who organises the annual winter Medici Lectures, allocated MMF a slot. Marion Townend arranged for Carpenter, Chairmaker, Carver, Wood Turner and now Luthier, Alan Clayton, to be the speaker. … Continue Reading

Can you Help?

September 12, 2020 September 2020 Comments Off on Can you Help?

Our valued reporter Chris will be available only intermittently over the next few months and we are looking for somebody to cover during this period. This is an interesting role as part of the Star team in covering an event or talking to interesting people. It is definitely not onerous usually producing two or three items a month. 

If you may be interested and would like more information please contact me at 3089 978 or email; beckett36@gmail.com 

Love to hear from you, Mike

Community Garden News

September 12, 2020 September 2020 Comments Off on Community Garden News

Good to see that Spring is in the air.

After a fairly bleak winter, we have just about filled all our planters with spring crops…. lettuce, kale, cavelo nero, onions and spring cabbage. The peas and broad beans planted directly as seeds are now well established and ready to be staked to keep them safe through the winds that will, no doubt come next month. … Continue Reading

Community well served by Tennis Club

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The Martinborough Lawn Tennis Club is a well-established and much-loved hub for our local community and visitors.  

With six grass and two all-weather floodlit astroturf courts on the Oxford/Regent Street corner, the club offers many levels of organised tennis through the summer. There are two nights a week of business house, plus junior and senior interclub and midweek tennis, and Club Captain and coach Marco de Groot runs weekly active tennis and junior coaching sessions.  … Continue Reading

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New golf clubhouse build, fund-raising up and running

Martinborough golf’s new clubhouse build is well under way _ as are fundraising efforts. It doesn’t seem long since we watched the demolition of the old clubhouse and now the frames for half the new building are in place with scaffolding up ready for the roof timbers. Everything is going …

Golf pro-am success _ without clubhouse

By Karen Stephens A record field of 172 players, including 43 professionals from New Zealand and Australia, battled light winds, warm temperatures and even light early-morning fog at Martinborough golf’s 2024 CER Electrical and Holmes Construction pro-am on February 1. At least that was the range of excuses for some …

Featherston wrestlers go offshore

Two members of Featherston Amateur Wrestling Club’s senior class have again been asked to join a New Zealand team overseas.  Wairangi Sargent and Angus Read will take part in the Journeymen Tournament and Training Camp over Easter in New York state.  Over the week they are there they will be …

Regular Features

News from First Church

 Many folk imagine that going to church is a bit of an ordeal, a waste …

FROM THE MAYOR

By Martin Connelly In February the local Lions Club invited me for dinner and asked …

Driving Growth and Collaboration: Martinborough Business Assn Committee

The Martinborough Business Association Committee plays an important role in fostering economic growth and collaboration …

How Well Do We Know People in our Community?

Michael Bing talks to Lyle Griffiths Michael was raised in Auckland, attending St Peters College …

BOOK REVIEWS FOR HOT SUMMER DAYS

By Brenda Channer – Martinborough Bookshop “Whether Violent or Natural” by Natasha Calder This debut …

Community Garden News

By Debbie Yates This is definitely the month of thank you. Nga Mihi Nui! We …

EVENTS

Saturday 10 February: 10th annual Citizen Science Kākahi Count at Western Lake Shore Reserve, 18km …

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