Kia ora booklovers! It’s May which means it’s Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival time! Our Young Readers Programme will take 22 writers/storytellers to over 1,000 students in schools across the Wairarapa from May 8-10. Then the Karukatea Festival graces our town…
Restoration Day attendees spent two days getting kanohi ki te kanohi (face-to-face) with the local fish species of the Wairarapa Moana wetlands. Magical weather and hands-on learning, from spotlighting for fish to touching eels, made this a captivating field trip.…
The wind blew and the gazebos could not be put up – however, the Sports Hub Open Day was a huge success, with around 80 people turning up to register their children or themselves for a range of sporting activities.“We…
The coast may be half an hour’s drive away, but Featherston is well endowed with summer swimming opportunities.The South Wairarapa District Council-run swimming pools on Johnson Street, behind the Sports Hub clubhouse, are open fromearly December to mid-March and are…
It has been great to see the Windy Wheels community bike track being enjoyed this year. It looks like we will be spendingmore time socialising outdoors this summer, so it’s good to have another place to enjoy spending time together.…
Having children is a life-changing experience for anyone. But Featherston resident Kimberlee Le Ceve has taken it one stepfurther. After watching how her daughters Alex (now 4) and Indi (3) responded to the pictures in their storybooks, she was inspired…
On a bright but chilly Sunday in August – just before the last lockdown – South Featherston School was alive to theindustry of whānau, staff and kids getting muddy, hauling river stones and planting saplings and shrubs in the new…
It seems incredible that it is almost 17 years since an informal group of about six singers gathered with the intention of starting a choir. Within two weeks there were 12, which soon swelled to 20, and the number has…
Saturday 11 July dawned cloudy and cool. The temperature was low but anticipation was high as the heavyweight of trucks – a big shiny black Mack – lead a convoy of fifty-plus classics, hotrods and vintage cars out onto the…
On Saturday 12 June, Wairarapa’s Okinawan Goju-ryu Karate (OGKWI) club competed against karate clubs from across the lower North Island to win the overall Kāpiti Karate Academy Championships. Thirteen karate students from South Wairarapa travelled to Kāpiti to compete against…