After three highly successful Featherston Booktown festivals, the Chair of the Featherston Booktown Trust and founder of the concept in New Zealand, Lincoln Gould, is retiring from the Board of Trustees. “I have seen Featherston Booktown grow from a brave…
South Wairarapa District Council (SWDC) has started a project to update its district plan schedule of protected trees. The three Wairarapa district councils have a combined district plan schedule, which documents notable trees that are protected across Wairarapa. SWDC has…
In June about 50 people showed up to put in more than 300 plants down at the Lake. These plants were put in near the footbridge at the Lake Domain Reserve and thanks to all the rain they are doing…
If you’re shopping at SuperValue you can now switch your plastic bag for a free, handmade cotton tote to use and bring back. Featherston is the latest town to join Boomerang Bags, an Australian-born scheme to help reduce the use…
The sight of scores of primary school children clutching their $10 vouchers, eager to buy books from more than 15 new, secondhand and antiquarian booksellers in Anzac Hall, was an outstanding feature of the third Featherston Booktown weekend in May.…
If you have not paid a visit to the tip sorry, recycling transfer station ‚ recently, now would be a good time to change that. Apleasant surprise awaits you. Gone are the evil odors, unsightly piles of rubbish and uneven…
On Tuesday 14 March all Wairarapa councils met with the Local Government Commission to discuss its draft proposal for a Wairarapa District Council. This has already been a long consultation process. It began in May and June 2013 when the…
March already and we are all geared up for another exciting year. Would you like to visit us to see if our Club is one you would like to belong to, if so then please call either Jenny on 308…
Having decided it was time for a complete change of lifestyle including location with the possibility of creating a small business that her family could be part of and enjoy, Jennifer Grey and her husband John began the search with…
Whilst looking over the internet – for something she has now forgotten – local resident Jenny Auckram stumbled across a word that was foreign to her. “Plarn” meant nothing whatsoever. A search through the dictionary found it meant plastic yarn.…