The Upper Hutt Star.

The Upper Hutt Star set out on a mission last October to produce a paper and a web site which generated a more positive view of our city.

This positive reinforcement would influence the Upper Hutt community to spend within our city and not leak south into the Lower Valley and the Wellington CBD.

We believed competition would prove beneficial with better advertising pricing and stories that accentuated the positive side of life rather than continuing the litany of depressive stories. Seldom was there the smile of a happy story.  More »

Be proud, we are a great community

By MARY-ANNE THOMPSON

Chief Reporter

Upper Hutt is a city of 42,000 people – the majority of them doing amazing and positive things.

The Upper Hutt Star has provided an opportunity to remind our community about how great it really is. More »

Why I love Upper Hutt

BOB FOX
Editor
Upper Hutt Star

In March 1966 Vivienne and I moved into our first house in Heretaunga Park, thanks to State Advances mortgage rates and a family top up. As 23 and 22-year-olds, it was all we could afford – that we liked. We never regretted our choice.

The family, now with three sons moved to Trentham, just off Trentham Memorial Park in 1980, a bigger house with space and a wonderful section that used to have a concrete swimming pool fed by icy artesian water in the Mawaihakona stream that ran off into the park. But the ‘council’ had diverted it the other way.  More »