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…
Another first for Paetūmōkai-Featherston! On 1 May 2021 this became the first town in South Wairarapa to have its own resource recovery centre. Called Ā Mua Community Resource Centre, this new facility has been set up by a group of…
For those of us seasoned enough to remember May 1996, not much has changed, and yet so much has. “How Bizarre”, from Auckland’s OMC, was one of the world’s top selling songs, and number one in charts around the globe…
Featherston Booktown launched the 2021 Karukatea Festival programme on 31 March at the Sports Hub, and it’s a wonder! Check the programme at www.booktown.nz and start marking your calendar for talks, debates, workshops, readings and spoken-word performances. From novelists to…