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• Masterton council’s annual grants top $165K

  A total of $165,519 has been given out by Masterton District Council’s awards and grants committee for Community Wellbeing and Community Events grants.

• Long-overdue RMA rewrite well worth effort

  In my column last week, I wrote about local government, rates and waste. This week, I want to continue the local government theme, but concentrate more on regional government.

• Housing

  Martinborough and Greytown continued to be Wairarapa’s priciest places to buy a house, while Featherston and Masterton’s suburbs were where people were likely to find the best bargains.

• New defibrillators distributed

  Health

• Hawke’s Bay council must lift its game, Wairoa flood review finds

  Disasters

• Briscoe Group reports record six-month sales

  Retail

• WTA letters, Sept 12 Shout out to the battlers

  Stopping access to Fresh Choice from Main St, as covered in the article Battle for Main St is over (Wairarapa Times-Age, September 5), is a big win for Greytown.

• Breaking bad: Why Raygun is No 1 in the world

  Dance sport

• The brightest person I know is...

  Rosemary Rayner

• Harris, Trump offer different visions

  United States

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