by Christine Dornan | 24 Sep, 2020 | Local News
Ninety-nine-year-old Daisy Aldridge ironing the mask making fabric, which was donated to the home by a former resident. PHOTO/SUPPLIED GIANINA SCHWANECKE gianina.schwanecke@age.co.nz Residents at Wharekaka Rest Home in Martinborough didn’t let the lockdown stop them...
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by Christine Dornan | 24 Sep, 2020 | Local News
Kris Faafoi in Masterton. PHOTO/KAREN COLTMAN KAREN COLTMAN karen.coltman@age.co.nz Labour’s Minister for Housing and for Immigration, Kris Faafoi rolled out an immigration pre-election announcement in Masterton on Tuesday, which was welcomed by Wairarapa Federated...
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by Christine Dornan | 23 Sep, 2020 | Local News
Covid-19 Vaccine Corporation’s Andy Hollings and Scion’s Gareth Lloyd-Jones. PHOTO/SUPPLIED Rathkeale College old boy Andy Hollings is part of a team hunting for New Zealand’s own covid-19 vaccine. Hollings is the manager of the Covid-19 Vaccine Corporation, which has...
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by Christine Dornan | 23 Sep, 2020 | Local News
PHOTO/FILE In the last of a five-part series on Wairarapa’s road to zero fatal crashes, GIANINA SCHWANECKE looks at the dangers of drink-driving. While young drivers under the age of 20 seem to be increasingly aware of the dangers of drink-driving, there’s more work...
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by Christine Dornan | 23 Sep, 2020 | Local News
PHOTO/FILE Cautious jubilance under Alert Level 1 ARTHUR HAWKES arthur.hawkes@age.co.nz Wairarapa is now back at Alert Level 1, after community transmission was discovered in Auckland on August 11, which plunged the whole country into Level 2. The risk assessment for...
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by Christine Dornan | 23 Sep, 2020 | Local News
The building which was formerly Turkey Red. PHOTOS/FILE Company in receivership, owes bank after fire Greytown’s Turkey Red is on the market after the company which owns it went into receivership. The company, Richard McNaughton Developments Limited [RMD], is owned by...
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by Christine Dornan | 22 Sep, 2020 | Local News
PHOTO/STOCK.ADOBE.COM In the fourth of a five-part series on Wairarapa’s road to zero fatal crashes, GIANINA SCHWANECKE looks at the importance of buckling up. One of the more positive trends to emerge out of police data on driving offences was a decrease in the...
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by Christine Dornan | 22 Sep, 2020 | Local News
Yarns in Barns event co-ordinator David Hedley. PHOTO/SUPPLIED Wairarapa’s 10th biennial ‘Yarns in Barns’, the region’s long-established Festival of Reading will run this year from October 8-18 with 18 events involving 24 authors. In 2020, ‘Yarns in Barns’ is...
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