26/08/2025
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GENERAL NEWS:
- Good news for drivers over 75: No need to re-sit your test unless your medical conditions require it
- ADVERTISEMENT: Upper Hutt Taxis
- Lane width reductions and alternate routes while Whakawhirinaki / The Silverstream pipe bridge is connected to the region's drinking water network
- Staglands brand-new main entrance building now officially open!
- Upper Hutt Cossie Club member Henry Fawbert celebrates his 100th birthday
- Watch the Water
LOCAL ISSUES FORUM - A PLACE WHERE LOCAL ISSUES CAN BE RAISED, EXPLAINED, AND DEBATED:
- Upper Hutt CBD - Revitalisation | Hellen Swales
COUNCIL MATTERS:
- Creative Communities NZ Arts Funding Assessment Committee: 28th of August 2025, 4.30 pm -6.30 pm
- Policy Committee: 27th of August 2025, 4.30 pm - 6.30 pm
- Risk and Assurance Committee, 15th of August - Minutes
LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS 2025:
- Bill Hammond (Independent)
- How are we doing? A regional snapshot of voter enrolment
- Upper Hutt Economic Growth Policy: Brett Thomson
- Upper Hutt Transport Policy Announcement: Brett Thomson
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
SPORTS:
- Remutaka Raptors win against Hellmilton Roller Ghouls: 279 12 - 0 124
- Team Pizza Party the winners at Remutaka Roller Derby's fundraiser quiz night
- Weekend football results: 23rd of August / 24th of August
- Wellington's petanque team wins the Chanticleer Cup in Otaki
COMMUNITY EVENTS:
- Book now for Positive Pathways School Holiday Programme: 22nd of September 3rd of October
- Electrify the Hutt Expo: Saturday 4th of October, 8.00 am - 4.00 pm
- Hutt Sings: Saturday 13th of September, 3.00 pm
- Listening tour - Disability discussion: Thursday 28th of August, 10.30 am - 11.30 am
- Pinehaven Art & Craft Exhibition: 5th and 6th of September
- Poetry Awards 2025 - Teen and Adult Categories: Friday 29th of August, 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
- Scottish Country Dancing in Upper Hutt - 7.00 pm on Wednesdays during August
- Time to enrol for Kelly Sports 5-A-Side Soccer: Term starts 17th of October.
- Upper Hutt Competitions Society - Troupes 2025: Sunday 31st of August, 9.00 am - 2.30 pm
- Upper Hutt | Food Loves Masterclass: Thursday 18th of September, 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
- Taoist Tai Chi: Mondays, 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
- SeniorNet: Tuesdays 1.30 pm – 3.00 pm
- Playgroup at St. Hilda's: Wednesday mornings during term time: 9.30 am - 11.00 am
- Rimutaka Baptist Church Playgroup: Fridays, 9.00 am - 11.30 am during term time
- St. Margaret's Playgroup: Tuesday Mornings, 10.00 am - 11.30 am (term time only)
- Upper Hutt Baptist Church playgroup: 9.30 am - 11.30 am, Tuesday Mornings
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
- Strings Attached Ukelele Group
- The Upper Hutt Women's Carer's Group
RECIPES:
BUSINESS ADVERTISING:
- Business Advertising
WORSHIP SERVICES:
- Heretaunga Community Church
- Rimutaka Baptist Church
- St. Margaret's Presbyterian Church, Silverstream
- Silverstream Reformed Church
- St. Hilda's Anglican Church
ENTERTAINMENT:
- What's new at Monterey Cinemas? Releasing 28th of August, 2025
