Southern dogs under control, behaving and returned

Of the 3,410 registered dogs living in the district, only 152 were listed in the South Wairarapa District Council’s Dog Control Activities complaints register for the year to July 2024 _ 13 more than the prior year but down 57 on 2021-22. The highest number of complaint offences _ 83 …

Toast to the new Taste Wairarapa

By Joelle Thomson, Wine Writer Taste Wairarapa stepped in where Toast Martinborough left off on the third weekend of November this year. The well-known Toast Martinborough food, wine and music event has run for 30 years and will return in January 2025 in a reincarnated form with Foley Wines as …

How Well Do We Know People In Our Community? – December 2024

By Lyle Griffiths Born in Whanganui, Mariana McDermott first lived with her mother in the home of her grandmother. After her mother remarried, the family moved to Martinborough, to Hikawera, where her stepfather, Tiki Mahupuku McGregor, built his own home. It was close to the old meeting house, which had …

Kitcheners ram-raid brings out community support

A front-end loader assault on a bank ATM which collapsed part of a verandah, ripped open a cafe frontage and wrecked building support beams netted the culprit nothing – but brought a swell of community support for the damaged Kitcheners Cafe business. Within nine hours of the ATM ram-raid on …

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National recognition for Martinborough Community Board

September 10, 2024 September 2024 Comments Off on National recognition for Martinborough Community Board

By Councillor Aidan Ellims

While last week’s Local Government NZ conference was in the headlines with topics around

infrastructure and spending, the event which was held on Thursday evening unfortunately received no coverage. This was the LGNZ Community Board Awards and Martinborough Community Board, and specifically Community Board member Angela Brown, received the “Partnering with Councils Award” for which a number of other community boards from across NZ competed.

This award was for the work Angela and MCB have carried out during the past year to build emergency resiliency throughout the Martinborough community and promote the Martinborough Community Emergency Hub.

Angela and MCB have successfully engaged with council, Wellington Regional Emergency … Continue Reading

Progress stalled on Pain Farm project

September 10, 2024 September 2024 Comments Off on Progress stalled on Pain Farm project

Martinborough Community Board has admitted the “progress” it has made to date in untangling the web of obfuscations created by South Wairarapa District Council with its management of the 85-hectare  Pain Estate has ground to a halt.

“Unfortunately,” said the four-member board in a short statement, “we have not made any real progress since out last update.” 

“We have requested a meeting with the CEO (Janice Smith) to discuss matters in person but this was declined as there was considered no new information available.”

The Community Board followed up by providing a list of questions with the request they be answered on or before its meeting on August 29. … Continue Reading

FROM THE MAYOR

September 10, 2024 September 2024 Comments Off on FROM THE MAYOR

By Martin Connelly

I spent part of the last week at the Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) annual conference. The 

conference got off to a rip-roaring start with the Prime-Minister berating councils for our “white elephants”, then telling us to “reign in the fantasies” and to get back to delivering the basics.

Following this, his Government stumped up $750,000 to go towards a World Dance Crew

Championship in Auckland, provided the council matched that amount. Go figure.

As you can imagine, a lot of locals got onto me about whether our Council had reigned in our expensive fantasies and gone “back to basics.” My normal answer was to ask them precisely what

non-essential expenditure they were thinking of. I got a lot of answers such as the million dollars to

Kuranui High School, a new dog pound, the new skate park in Greytown and a fair few others. … Continue Reading

Help dish out the Arts dosh

September 10, 2024 September 2024 Comments Off on Help dish out the Arts dosh

If you fit the criteria you can join a volunteer panel giving out funding for local artists: that’s the message from South Wairarapa District Council.

Don’t panic ratepayers: the putea to be distributed comes from the Creative NZ Creative Communities Scheme (CCS) _ via the government’s tax purse.

Four volunteers will be selected for the panel to help council distribute this funding for local arts (Ngā putea mo ngā toi o te haukainga) to young, upcoming and experienced artists in the South Wairarapa.

 Applicants will need to show clearly that they:

• celebrate diversity of artistic expression;

• desire to champion new artists as well as established ones;

• have a depth of experience and understanding of arts; … Continue Reading

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Martinborough golf by a hank – of wool

  We start at the end of the month, when the annual Baabraa Trophy between Martinborough and Eketahuna was fought out on a glorious Sunday in Martinborough. A field of 70 played a stableford round and the average stableford points for the two clubs were calculated. Eketahuna scored an average …

Lady golfers show Rosebowl winning ways

September has been an up and down month weatherwise for golfers, some beautiful early spring days followed by cold and rain. Thankfully for the important days the weather has mostly come to the party. Early in the month the Cotter Rosebowl was successfully defended at Carterton by Martinborough’s team of …

Stunning first 4 – 1 win for Marty Women’s FC

By All-knowing Football Reporter It was always going to happen. After a few draws, some losses the newly-formed MWFC won their first game. An impressive and resounding victory. It started with ‘The Fox in the Box,’ the striker who plays in the traditional Number 9 role of marauding the penalty …

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From the Mayor

By Martin Connelly Water services have been a political football for some time. We associate …

EVENTS

Wellington Heritage Festival WHEN: October 26 – November 17  WHERE: * Wellington Region – 140 …

How Well Do We Know People in Our Community?

By Lyle Griffiths Pforzheim in Southern Germany was where Thomas Röckinger lived with his family, …

LETTER OF THE MONTH

Could ZERO growth be the answer?   So, Martinborough’s sewage woes continue, and have seriously …

THE STAR BOOK REVIEW

    By Brenda Channer – Martinborough Bookshop “Costanza” by Rachel Blackmore This is a …

THE STAR  BOOK  REVIEW  

By Brenda Channer –  Martinborough Bookshop “All the Colours of the Dark” by Chris Whittaker. …

EVENTS – October 2024

Discover Te Muna  WHEN:     Saturday, Sunday, October 19 – 20  TIME:      …

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