THE heritage-listed Norman Lodge gatehouse on Nepean Highway, Mount Eliza, has completed being dismantled with the owners expected to lodge a “dismantling report” to Heritage Victoria by this Friday (14 November). The protected gatehouse has been the subject of planning applications in 2013 and 2020 that would have seen the structure deconstructed and moved just metres away to be reconstructed on a concrete slab footing. The future of the building fell into doubt in April 2024 when it was badly damaged after a large eucalyptus tree fell onto it. Subsequent to that incident, the shire issued a demolition order after…
Author: Cameron McCullough
PAULIE Stewart has a lot of stories to tell, and he is heading to Frankston Library this week as part of AusMusic Month for an afternoon of tales and music. Stewart, perhaps best known as frontman of the infamous Painters & Dockers, will shares stories from his tell-all memoir All the Rage accompanied by a guitarist bringing the soundtrack to his incredible journey. From an angry young man reeling from the loss of his older brother; one of the Balibo 5 journalists murdered in East Timor in 1975, Stewart fell into music, and became synonymous with the irreverence that was…
PROVINCIAL After finishing the 24/25 regular season top of the table, Langwarrin have failed to notch a win in their first two matches for 25/26. They came up against newly-promoted Mornington on Saturday and put up a fair showing to be all out for 158 in the 37th over. The middle order shone for Langwarrin with Brodie Matthews putting on 27 and Taylor Smith 44. Mornington’s response was spearheaded by captain Hayden Cummings’ slow but steady 62 not out off 112 balls. He provided the backbone for Tom Panich’s 49 and Zac Garnet’s 32 to see the newbies get to…
A GREAT relationship with the blokes at Chelsea Men’s Shed has led one woman to partner with them to launch a women’s program.Tamarin Young’s involvement with the Shed wasn’t about fellowship or support, key principles that men’s sheds around Victoria embrace. It was more about necessity. As a single mum doing a DIY home renovation, Young found herself visiting the shed for help with her projects.“I had been doing a lot of do-it-yourself projects. I had purchased my own house and as a single mum had a steep learning curve in maintenance and renovation,” said Young. “Some of the renovation…
WHEN MP for Hastings Paul Mercurio announced that funding had been secured for a cross-peninsula bus service, he must have realised that it wouldn’t please everybody. Indeed, it has been a century-long debate about how to better connect both sides of the peninsula, and there have been many false starts. The battle for improved public transport on the peninsula has raged on for more than a century. On 17 April 1925, the Frankston and Somerville Standard announced “Mornington residents are hopeful that the railway from Frankston will be electrified. The work is due to be undertaken next, after the electrification…