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After a wild and wet 2022 Festival (not to mention the days leading up to the fest), the weather gods were smiling upon us and turned on the sunshine for the 13th and 14th May. The streets, shops and eateries…

Featherston has lost a modest but nonetheless important figure in the history of our town. Many older residents will have known Mike Beckett as a worker and owner at Beckett’s supermarket. Some will recognise him as the author of fascinating…

The students of St Teresa’s School have had a long affiliation with a South Wairarapa District Council-owned section of Donald’s Creek, accessed off State Highway 53. Over the past eight years, St Teresa’s School, as kaitiaki of the stream, has…

The Greytown Music Group is honoured to have interna- tionally celebrated concert pianist Dr Jian Liu open our 2023 “Piandemonium” concert series on Sunday 2 April. Jian is a highly sought-after solo pianist and chamber mu- sician, and has appeared…

The Colgate Games are New Zealand’s biggest athletics events for children and are attended by hundreds of athletes aged from seven to 14 years. Featherston Athletics sent two athletes to the 2023 North Island Colgate Games in Whanganui last month…

Pae tū Mōkai o Tauira has just won a Kūmara Award for its contribution to making Featherston a fabulous place and to revitalising Wairarapa Moana (Lake Wairarapa). Kūmara Awards are given out annually to local groups whose “placemaking” projects help to…

Tool library opens in time for summer by Guy Walker The long-awaited A Mua Community Tool Library is now open for business.It stocks a growing range of tools, gardening implements and machinery, ladders and a wheelbarrow.Membership for the tool library…

The Robert Algie Memorial Trust was lucky enough to partner with Wairarapa Bush Rugby and the New Zealand Parliamentary Rugby Team for a fundraising game last month.Born and raised in Featherston, Robert is remembered as one of New Zealand’s most…

Moves underway to upgrade popular campsite by Anne Hynds Concerned Featherston residents Ed and Sian Harcourt and Anne Hynds recently met with representatives from the Department of Conservation (DOC) to talk about the need to improve facilities at the Bucks…

Featherston’s Matariki festival is something to be proud of. This year New Zealand has celebrated our oldest and newest national holiday for the first time as a bicultural and multicultural nation, and it will be an entry in the history…