by Hayley | Sep 18, 2018 | Life & Leisure, Local News
Greytown’s Main St, looking south. PHOTO/JADE CVETKOV What was once a sleepy little town with a booming fruit and vegetable industry is now a trendy retail centre and weekend hotspot. Reporter HAYLEY GASTMEIER talks to Greytown locals about the fashionable present...
read more
by Hayley | Sep 10, 2018 | Life & Leisure, Local News
Film maker Heperi Mita was in Masterton recently for the screening of his documentary, Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen. PHOTO/REBECCA MCMILLAN PHOTOGRAPHY Merata Mita played a significant part in the growth of the Maori screen industry as an accomplished...
read more
by Janice Dagg | Aug 28, 2018 | Life & Leisure
Wairarapa Weddings – the essential guide to getting married in Wairarapa, featuring the 2018 Bride Of The Year...
read more
by Christine Dornan | Jul 12, 2018 | Life & Leisure
In their first national strike for 30 years, nurses are poised to walk off the job today, adding to hospitals’ winter woes. CAL ROBERTS cal.roberts@age.co.nz Today’s planned nurses’ strike could not come at a worse time for public health with the effects of winter...
read more
by Christine Dornan | Jun 12, 2018 | Life & Leisure
Cross Creek Railway Society’s mini putt proposal for Featherston has been put on hold. PHOTO/SUPPLIED HAYLEY GASTMEIER hayley.gastmeier@age.co.nz A proposal to install a mini putt course in Featherston has been shelved. The project would have seen a 9-hole course...
read more
by Christine Dornan | May 14, 2018 | Life & Leisure, Local News
Ed Cooke using his custom-made ‘gizmo’, which sits inside his drill. PHOTOS/ELISA VORSTER You could bump into Ed Cooke on the streets of Greytown and have no idea he carves beautiful musical instruments in his garage. ELISA VORSTER went to find out how he started his...
read more
by Christine Dornan | May 14, 2018 | Life & Leisure, Local News
PHOTOS/GREAT WAR EXPERIENCE STEVE RENDLE steve.rendle@age.co.nz The easiest way to make something look like it’s been shot by a machine-gun . . . is to shoot it with a machine-gun. That’s some of the first-hand experience Carterton’s Dan King gained during 18 months...
read more
by Christine Dornan | May 7, 2018 | Life & Leisure, Midweek
Helen Dew sitting on her newly-built planter boxes. PHOTOS/ELISA VORSTER Sustainable living is a phrase people either embrace wholeheartedly or completely shy away from. Reporter ELISA VORSTER branches out to learn about what one Carterton resident is doing to show...
read more
