Did you know

THAT the Featherston Swimming Club is celebrating 100 years in December. Anybody who has historic anecdotes to contribute or wishes to be part of the celebrations please contact Julie at; jmcollins@xnet.co.nz

THAT the Ministry of Education has pledged $450,000 towards a new arts facility for Kuranui College.

THAT a good gift for a homeopath is an empty box with the memory of the chocolates it once contained.

THAT Britain passed a law forbidding the use of children climbing up chimneys as sweeps on August 7^th 1840. … Continue Reading

Library

A visitor shows that the wifi connection is fine outside of the building. Although with the southerly whipping through it would have been much warmer inside.

From the Mayor

Recently Council made the decision to close Martinborough’s library building. This decision was not taken lightly and was made after we received an earthquake vulnerability report on the building’s structure which highlighted that it met less than five percent of the current building code.  The move has raised several questions which I will attempt to answer.

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The Kabin

Greetings from the Library Kabin (yes, I know it should be spelt with a C but it is short for Portakabin and besides which, we like to be different!).

As you may be aware from visiting Mitre 10, we are snuggled between Mitre 10 and P&K in the car park. We opened the Kabin on a gloriously sunny day on Thursday 19th July at 1.30 with a ribbon cutting ceremony (see photo in case you missed it!).

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