That’s right New Zealand, we make your fire trucks. @patrickgowernz is spot on: “we have a proud history of making and creating things… it’s what we do… we are hard working people in the Hutt”. #thefutureismadehere

What do you get when you mix a car destined for the scrap heap and used EV car-battery? Flash sports cars and much loved classics coming back to life as EVs - engineered in a small garage in Petone! Very cool Ben! stuff.co.nz/motoring/evs/129… #thefutureismadehere

Impressive as always…. #SignFoundry based in Alicetown has taken out the Wellington #GoldAwards workplace injury prevention award tonight!

Love your work @excionz! Congrats for being winners of Creative Gold at the Wellington #GoldAwards … it’s slowly becoming the Hutt’s night tonight! Another piece of awesomeness from Wainuiomata!

And another Hutt winner! Congrats to Voideck for taking out the Emerging Services award at tonight’s #GoldAwards! A humble but smart company in our neighbourhood of innovators literally saving lives by filling in voids on construction sites.

We can spot that mullet, uh, we mean, that legend Phil from a mile away! Awesome to see the ever-growing #Brewtown win the Vibrant Gold category at tonight’s Wellington #GoldAwards! #lovethehutt

Two from two! Jeremy Ward and the team at #EastbyWestFerrries win tonight’s #goldawards Green Gold! Awesome mahi team! Brilliant start to the night!

First category at tonight’s Wellington #GoldAwards and boom it’s a wjn for Fraser and Wellington Electric Boat Builders for creating Ika Rere our electric ferry. Thanks Fraser for the shout out to all our tradies and tech brains all around you Lower Hutt.

Walking in to #SymphontInTheHutt tonight at the Walter Nash Centre in Taita: the vibe is, well, just, wow! Hard to describe, but so special to see so many whanau soaking up the @OrchestraWLG boogies, grooves and disco tunes! Encore, encore!

Overheard from a few riders atop the Pukeatua lookout as we took this photo earlier tonight: “That’s an outrageous sunset Hutt Valley!”

"...the Hutt was actually a pretty great place to grow up, an even better place to escape from in my 20s and a dream to come home to when I got my head out of my behind in my 30s," says @TheGirlInRowK Thanks for the delicious write up Kylie! stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-…

How much of the 115km Remutaka Cycle Trail have you done? Take the train to Petone or Maymorn to start, book a return shuttle, ride another section or walk the whole thing. Here's a neat video by #findyourwildnz to show you more youtube.com/watch?v=-kyrSQql… #nzcycletrail #greatride

Congrats to Simon and Ryan at @FrothTech who won the Business Innovation Award at last night's @NZFoodAwards - makers of liquid yeast cultures grown right here in their "urban farm" in Avalon, making NZ brewed beers even fresher

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So great to see your mahi being recognised Colleen!

Congrats to Mary and the team for being named this year's best bookshop in Aotearoa!

Honoured to have @hitRECordJoe here to create his series Mr Corman and now watch Hutt neighbourhoods on screen thanks to local talent and #AvalonStudios! Fairfield, Naenae, Trentham and Petone are standing in for San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. stuff.co.nz/entertainment/fi…

Thanks to all the diligent location managers, film crew and @huttcitycouncil events and transport teams for helping “recreate” East Hollywood in Petone - we will be watching Mr Corman just to spot the stand-in locations.

We didn't know that... NZ's iconic TV ad "The Great Crunchie Train Robbery" was filmed here in the Hutt back in 1975. Well, obviously not the desert railway shots... but how cool! Thanks @rnz_news for uncovering the on-set efforts from years ago. rnz.co.nz/national/programme…

Alicetown-based A44 video game producers are still growing and are eyeing up delivering a second blockbuster! In a competitive global industry we get that we need to just let their talented team get on with it, nonetheless it's great to read this today: stuff.co.nz/entertainment/ga…