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…
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.…