by Christine Dornan | 30 Mar, 2020 | Local News
The Carkeek Observatory, south of Featherston. PHOTO/HERITAGE NEW ZEALAND ARTHUR HAWKES arthur.hawkes@age.co.nz On a farm south of Featherston sits a wooden structure, tired and weather-beaten. You could be forgiven for assuming it to be an abandoned barn at first...
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by Christine Dornan | 30 Mar, 2020 | Local News
Medical centres, like this one in Masterton, remain open, but patients should call in advance. PHOTO/JADE CVETKOV The ups and the downs of lockdown STAFF REPORTERS Wairarapa residents have been urged to contact their doctor as usual if they feel unwell. The area’s...
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by Christine Dornan | 30 Mar, 2020 | Local News
PHOTO/GIANINA SCHWANECKE GIANINA SCHWANECKE Gianina.schwanecke@age.co.nz After months of drought, heavy rain on Friday and overnight might have a few farmers “dancing around in their undies”, Federated Farmers Wairarapa president William Beetham said. MetService...
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by Christine Dornan | 28 Mar, 2020 | Local News
A vacant Fitzherbert St in Featherston. PHOTOS/ARTHUR HAWKES The Times-Age despatched Emily Ireland, Karen Coltman and Arthur Hawkes to observe Wairarapa towns on the first day of covid-19 Alert Level Four: Stay home, save lives. Featherston Featherston is one of the...
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by Christine Dornan | 28 Mar, 2020 | Local News
EMILY IRELAND emily.ireland@age.co.nz Ministry of Health statistics aligning covid-19 cases to DHBs throughout New Zealand issued on Thursday, show that Wairarapa has five confirmed and probable cases, an increase on three from the previous day. Until Thursday, only...
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by Christine Dornan | 27 Mar, 2020 | Local News
Aiden Sayer was seriously injured in an accident at AGTEC Machinery on February 11. PHOTO/FILE The young Wairarapa man who was seriously injured last month in a workplace accident at AGTEC Machinery in Solway has been described by doctors as a “medical miracle”....
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by Christine Dornan | 27 Mar, 2020 | Local News
PHOTO/FILE Councillors in South Wairarapa on Wednesday approved decision-making measures to prepare for a covid-19 “worst case scenario”. Rules are now in place to help the district’s essential services continue and stop the spread of the pandemic in the area. In a...
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by Christine Dornan | 27 Mar, 2020 | Local News
PHOTO/FILE All council employees and contacts tested and negative MARCUS ANSELM marcus.anselm@age.co.nz The Carterton District Council worker who tested positive for covid-19 has received the all clear but said he went through “a really difficult time” and received...
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