On Saturday 9 March 2024, the New Zealand Fringe Festival—the largest multi-disciplinary arts festival in Aotearoa—came to a close with a bang. NZ Fringe acts as a platform for both emerging and established artists to offer their events to the Pōneke public .
Sterling’s earliest beginnings and those who played a role in its establishment were the focus of Overland Trail Museum’s History Café program on Wednesday. Curator Kay Rich prefaced the program by noting there is very little written about “Old Sterling,” which was the first settlement that was formed before the town moved to its present-day […]