Wairarapa Times-Age

The Wairarapa Times-Age serves as the daily newspaper for the Wairarapa region in New Zealand, which encompasses Masterton.

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Disabled volunteers muck in at the park

Jun 21, 2024 | times-age.co.nz | Kate McCoubrey Judson

Student volunteers with disabilities have been mucking in to maintain Masterton’s Queen Elizabeth Park and graveyard as part of an initiative that’s been running for five years. In 2019, Doug Bracewell proposed the idea of involving youth with disabilities at Wairarapa College in looking after the park and cemetery by tidying up tree debris.
Markets, music, and the mystery

Jun 20, 2024 | times-age.co.nz | Kate McCoubrey Judson

Wairarapa-based country music singer Sue Dyson is performing at Club Wairarapa tonight. Dyson has starred on the Good Morning show in New Zealand as a soloist and worked on other televised events, including The New Zealand Music Awards. Members of the Masterton Club, affiliated members, and their guests are welcome. The Whatman Restaurant is open from 5.30pm for dinner. Tonight from 7.30pm to 11.30pm, at Club Wairarapa, 20 Essex Street, Masterton. Admission is free.
Wairarapa Line grind has a long way to go yet

Jun 20, 2024 | times-age.co.nz | Kate McCoubrey Judson

Commuters catching the Wairarapa Line may have to wait for another four months before the track’s bad vibrations are dealt with and until next year for speed restrictions to be completely lifted.
Region's top young viticulturist named

Jun 20, 2024 | times-age.co.nz | Kate McCoubrey Judson

Martinborough-based Annika Salenjus has claimed the title of Wairarapa Young Viticulturist of the Year for the second year in a row. The Wairarapa competition was held at the Escarpment Winery in Martinborough on Thursday and was combined with the Auckland regional final, for which there was only one contestant.
New beginnings at TenCC

Jun 20, 2024 | times-age.co.nz | Nick Grant

Masterton’s iconic Ten O’clock Cookie Bakery and Cafe [TenCC] quietly changed hands on April 29, and now the new owners are gearing up to celebrate the transition in conjunction with ringing in the Māori New Year.
Two marine mammals stranded

Jun 19, 2024 | times-age.co.nz | Kate McCoubrey Judson

Over the past two months, two marine mammals have been beached on Wairarapa’s shores – one survived, and one died. Longtime fisherman Pete Lam Sam said that he had an “out of this world” experience after spotting what he thought was a dead tuna when he was out riding a quad bike along Lake Ferry Beach last Thursday [June 13]. “I got a bit closer and, behold, it was a little dolphin”, he said. “I was pleasantly surprised to hear it still breathing.
Contractors copping barrier road rage

Jun 19, 2024 | times-age.co.nz | Kate McCoubrey Judson

Rural contractors at a three-day Rural Contractors New Zealand [RCNZ] conference that finishes today in Masterton have expressed concerns about road safety. RCNZ chief executive Andrew Olsen said the concerns raised are around median barriers being installed on roads without proper consultation with rural road users. “Rural roading is a major issue, whether it’s the state of the roads rurally or whether it’s the now emerging issue around medium barriers,” he said.
Initiative to cleanup vaping issue

Jun 17, 2024 | times-age.co.nz | Kate McCoubrey Judson

A Wairarapa-based Māori health service has created an initiative to kick the mounting rise in vape litter to the curb. Two vape recycling advocates from Whaiora have spent two months developing and delivering the campaign Ehara Tenei Te Pūrākau o Ngā Tīpuna [This is not the story of our Tīpuna] and aspire to rolling it out nationwide. This has involved teaming up with more than 30 Masterton businesses that have now collected more than 370 vapes in four weeks.
Two groups raising fast-track ‘red-flags’

Jun 17, 2024 | times-age.co.nz | Kate McCoubrey Judson

A Masterton-based Māori trust and Wairarapa iwi organisation are opposing the Fast-track Approvals Bill and seeking amendments to aspects that have environmental and Te Tiriti o Waitangi implications.
Bat man strikes back: Late night intruder sent packing

Jun 17, 2024 | times-age.co.nz | Kate McCoubrey Judson

A Masterton man took matters – and a baseball bat – into his own hands when he discovered a trespasser on his property on Saturday night after several thefts in the neighbourhood. “I was already on edge because there had been a burglar, then I see him outside my window outside my boy’s room,” Lansdowne resident Bradley Churchward told the Times-Age. “I approached him and held my bat and said, ‘Hey [swear word], you better stop robbing houses around here.