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Stop bottling things up
Alex Muir. PHOTOS/SUPPLIED Winery supports sustainability and mental health GIANINA SCHWANECKE gianina.schwanecke@age.co.nz Through record-breaking rainfall and severe frosts which decimated local vineyards, Martinborough’s Alex Muir’s love of winemaking has never...
$1m grant to protect river
The Ruamahanga River is getting government funding. PHOTO/STOCK.ADOBE.COM GIANINA SCHWANECKE gianina.schwanecke@age.co.nz The government has announced more than $1 million funding for the Ruamahanga River Scheme to help with stopbank and soil erosion protection as...
Trees to be planted on road
Concrete rings on Harrison St East. PHOTOS/MARCUS ANSELM KAREN COLTMAN karen.coltman@age.co.nz Some residents of Harrison Street East in Featherston were alarmed to see large concrete bollards appear on their road. Daphne Grant wrote to the council with a, “please...
Multimillion dollar makeover for P and K
Husband and wife team, Pip and Conor Kershaw, are ready to get on with the rebuild and redevelopment of their general store. PHOTO/HAYLEY GASTEMEIER KAREN COLTMAN karen.coltman@age.co.nz Resource consent has been granted to Pain and Kershaw for the family-owned...
Dramatic drop in housing stock
PHOTO/STOCK.ADOBE.COM Average asking price rising Just 70 new properties listed in July ARTHUR HAWKES arthur.hawkes@age.co.nz Housing stock in Wairarapa has plummeted, new data from realestate.co.nz has shown. Across the country, stock had decreased by an average of...
Luncheon honours forgotten vets
Masterton RSA president Trevor Thompson giving a speech acknowledging the war veterans. PHOTOS/KAREN COLTMAN KAREN COLTMAN karen.coltman@age.co.nz All seats were taken at the inaugural Masterton RSA lunch for World War II veterans, those who served in Japan after that...
Unclear future for workers
The Warehouse Masterton appeared to be having some modifications to its signage. PHOTO/ARTHUR HAWKES ARTHUR HAWKES arthur.hawkes@age.co.nz The Warehouse Masterton appeared to be having some signage changes, which came after the announcement of potentially 950 job cuts...
DHB told to reinstate fired staff
Four staff dismissed by the Wairarapa District Health Board in June want their jobs back. PHOTO/FILE EMILY IRELAND emily.ireland@age.co.nz The Employment Relations Authority has ordered the Wairarapa District Health Board to temporarily reinstate four staff members it...
Mercedes-Benz destroyed
A burnt out vehicle on Cornwall St. PHOTO/KAREN COLTMAN Arson suspected Police in dark over car KAREN COLTMAN karen.coltman@age.co.nz Several Masterton residents were woken up on Friday by car airbags exploding and the smell of smoke – the result of a Mercedes-Benz on...
Police chasing robbery leads
PHOTOS/NZ POLICE ALEYNA MARTINEZ aleyna.martinez@age.co.nz Police are following leads in the Jackson Street Bar robbery from Tuesday night where a man wielding a gun entered the bar at closing time and took a sum of cash. The man, wearing “a balaclava, glasses and...
Sunstrike possible cause of SH2 crash
A driver said sunstrike caused him to drive into the back of the car he was following. PHOTO/ ALEYNA MARTINEZ ALEYNA MARTINEZ aleyna.martinez.age.co.nz A 71-year-old woman was taken to Wairarapa Hospital with minor injuries after a crash in Clareville, thought to be...
Taratahi gets back to work
Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor praised Wairarapa-based list MP Kieran McAnulty for helping bring courses back to Taratahi during a tree planting to celebrate the site reopening. PHOTO/GIANINA SCHWANECKE GIANINA SCHWANECKE gianina.schwanecke@age.co.nz From health...
Moth plant on the loose in Wairarapa
A moth plant fruiting. PHOTO/WEEDBUSTERS ARTHUR HAWKES arthur.hawkes@age.co.nz It’s not quite a triffid, but a noxious, wildlife-killing weed is on the loose in Wairarapa. Greater Wellington Regional Councilhas notified residents about the presence of an invasive...
MP always enjoyed ‘a scrap’
Left to right: The Scott family, daughters Holly Scott and Ruby Brandwood, wife Robyn Noble-Campbell, Alastair Scott, his mother Jan, and mother-in-law, Lois Noble-Campbell. PHOTO/SUPPLIED KAREN COLTMAN karen.coltman@age.co.nz Two-term Wairarapa National MP Alastair...
Armed robbery at Jackson St Bar
Senior Constable Rod Gully works the scene. PHOTO/ALEYNA MARTINEZ ALEYNA MARTINEZ aleyna.martinez@age.co.nz A man, armed with a firearm, robbed Jackson Street Bar on Tuesday night and got away with an “amount of cash”, police said. Wairarapa Police Senior Sergeant...
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