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Hello Featherston First Friday fans! We have been keeping busy since the end of the summer FFF events, with our offseason popup concert series at the Kiwi Hall. Eb&Sparrow in May was a sell-out and a knockout. Next up we…

Lake Wairarapa is the third-biggest lake in the North Island. I love the aerial photo of Featherston and Lake Wairarapa at the supermarket. It shows how close our town is to LakeWairarapa. It shows how massive the lake is. Lake…

It’s almost time to oil the time machine and polish your finery – or vice versa. The second annual Time Travellers’ Ball is nearly upon us, and this is a reminder to Featherston locals that tickets, priced at $35, are…

Across the world, farmers, producers, governments and agricultural processors have made their decision on what to do about climate change. They’re acting now. New Zealand farmers are no strangers to challenge. The growth of the primary production sector is one…

Progress on the sculpture continues, with four of the standards having been cast and a fifth ready for casting. Some of the trustees of the Featherston Camp Memorial Trust visited the Dibble workshop just before Christmas and the true scale…

We wish to provide reassurance to the Featherston community after the recent high-profile incident in Waite Street on 14 January. I can’t go into too much detail concerning this incident, which is still under investigation, but certainly I ask if…

Trustees and users of Card Reserve turf complex are delighted to announce that the proposed upgrade of the turf has been completed. The turf was first completed in the year 2000 and opened by the then member of parliament Georgina…

Last year, Rebekah Mehrtens and I started Featherston First Fridays on a wing and a prayer, on the smell of an oily shoestring, and on the back of more bad metaphors than you could shake a stick at. Why? We…

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…