by Janice Dagg | 27 May, 2022 | Business, Life & Leisure
Marlene Ditchfield Profile Writer/Photographer Deciding to follow your dream and create a business, or to change direction in life, takes an enormous amount of courage at the best of times. To do so in the time of covid brings up another set of challenges but that...
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by Ellie Franco | 22 May, 2022 | Life & Leisure, Local News
Astrologers claim both romantic and professional destinies are written in the stars. That’s why Kōpuaranga couple, Christine Loveday and David Christopher, have named their band Virgo Sagittarius, after their own star signs. They believe they’re destined...
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![Masterton Foodbank manager Jenna Matchett [middle] and volunteers Jane Ammundsen [left] and Jane Horsham.](https://times-age.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/449861-220x150.jpg)
by Bevan Wills | 16 May, 2022 | Life & Leisure, Masterton
Masterton Foodbank manager Jenna Matchett [middle] and volunteers Jane Ammundsen [left] and Jane Horsham. PHOTO/HELEN HOLT HELEN HOLT helen.holt@age.co.nz Masterton Foodbank had seen a 95 per cent increase in demand in the last two years, due to covid-19 and the...
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by Ellie Franco | 15 May, 2022 | Life & Leisure, Local Focus, Local News
By day, Steve Rendle is a Masterton District Council spokesperson; by night, he goes by the pseudonym ‘Topdresser’ , plays guitar, and writes his own music. Steve performed two songs in the Wairarapa Times-Age office as part of its Tiny Desk-style concert series for...
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by Ellie Franco | 7 May, 2022 | Life & Leisure, Local News
An exciting project is underway at Wairere Rams as the team develops a new breed of sheep without wool. Business Manager Simon Buckley said the farm still believed in wool. However, its value had been declining for many years, costing today’s farmers more time and...
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by Ellie Franco | 13 Apr, 2022 | Life & Leisure, Local News, Video
Cyclists are gathering for the second Blackwell & Sons National Tweed Ride in Greytown on Easter Saturday. “We’re really celebrating a lifestyle that’s quite prevalent here in Greytown of casual cycling, cycling up to the cafes, picking up pure...
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by Ellie Franco | 7 Apr, 2022 | Life & Leisure, Local Focus, Local News, Video
Male and female, young and old came together to learn how to upcycle and make their own sanitary products in Featherston recently. Wairarapa MP Kieran McAnulty attended Divine River’s workshop at Fareham Creative Space, to learn how to make a pad for his...
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