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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Martinborough Fire Brigade: another big year

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2024 fire/emergency calls to end of November: 338

It’s been a big year for the brigade. We’ve welcomed a new Chief and a new Deputy Chief and have seen some great new recruits come on board. 

We still need more people so please get in touch if you are interested in joining us.

This holiday season we urge anyone lighting a fire of any kind outside to visit the Fire and Emergency “Can I light a fire?” online tool at checkitsalright.nz to double-check the fire season and conditions in your area are safe for the type of fire you want to light (assuming season is open) or if you need a permit. … Continue Reading

Martinborough Kindergarten sets up Paataka Kai

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You may have noticed something new sitting outside the gate at Martinborough Kindergarten recently. This is our Pataka Kai which is a community food pantry. Over the last few years, our

Kindergarten has been on a journey towards using more sustainable practices and part of this journey included us joining Enviro Schools. During one of our enviro school hub meetings we noticed a Paataka Kai at another Kindergarten and this inspired us to make our own. We thought this would be a great place to share produce from our garden with our whaanau and provide a place where they could also share kai from their gardens. This provides the opportunity to share, show … Continue Reading

One Quick Question

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Where in town would you find this smart new bronze plaque?

Clues:

It’s on a building in The Square

That building was opened 130 years ago (1894)

It’s a heritage II listed property

The architect was Charles Natusch

This 1908 photo of The Square includes the building. … Continue Reading

EVENTS  – December 2024

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Martinborough Christmas Parade

WHAT: Santa’s Return from Exile

WHEN: Sunday 15 December

WHERE: Jellicoe St; The Square

TIME: 4:30 p.m. … 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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