TWO new playgrounds have opened in Langwarrin and Seaford for the summer holidays.Works have been completed at Monique Reserve in Langwarrin and East Seaford Reserve in Seaford. Frankston Council spent…
FREE swimming classes at PARC and the Pines Pool are helping novice swimmers stay safe this summer.January of 2024 saw drowning rates double compared to the year prior. Free swimming…
STUDENTS across the bayside region received their ATAR scores last Thursday (12 December) with some outstanding results.Kirsten Harkness made history for Mount Erin College with the highest score a student…
SUBMISSIONS for Frankston Council’s annual budget will be accepted from next week.Between 20 January and 20 February, Frankston residents can complete a survey on council’s next budget. Community submissions will…
POLICE seized multiple allegedly stolen vehicles during a raid at a home on Flynn Court in Frankston last week. Detectives raided the Frankston home just before 10.30am on 7 January.…
A MAN has been charged for allegedly setting grass fires in Mordialloc after starting a blaze at the Caulfield Racecourse grandstand.Police allege the man started a fire at the Caulfield…
MORNINGTON Peninsula mayor Cr Anthony Marsh and Hastings MP Paul Mercurio have turned the first sod to celebrate construction starting on the Somerville to Baxter Trail.This much-anticipated new shared path…
SOCCER THE focus of the local game switches to Lawton Park this Saturday and the 12th official staging of the annual Steve Wallace Memorial Day. The event commemorates the life…
SOCCER PENINSULA Strikers have signed attacking midfielder Kyle Eichenberger from Langwarrin.The 20-year captained Langwarrin’s under-23s last season, won the Golden Boot award and was runner-up in the Player’s Player Of…
PROVINCIALOLD Peninsula faced a hefty total on Saturday after Baden Powell notched up a tidy 221 last week. But apart from a single early wicket, with Zak Bauer getting caught…
SOCCER JASON Grieve was offered two State 4 coaching jobs in 24 hours last week and not long after was unveiled as the new head coach of Frankston Pines. Grieve…
THE annual Waterfront Festival returns to Frankston next month. The free weekend festival takes place across Friday, 7 February, and Saturday, 8 February. Sneaky Sound System will headline the main…
MUSICIAN Queenie, the alter-ego of Eloise Thetford, will perform in a free concert at Kingston City Hall in Moorabbin this weekend.The concert is part of a series of free events…
SILVIE Paladino will headline next weekend’s Carols by Kingston event at Bicentennial Park in Chelsea.The annual Christmas Carols will be held from 5pm on Sunday, 8 December. Joining Paladino on…
THE Frankston Christmas Festival is set to return for its 26th year at the end of this month. Christmas celebrations across Frankston will kick off on Saturday, 30 November. The…
SCIENTIST Hans Brunner, who helped exonerate Lindy Chamberlain, died last week on Thursday, 25 April.A large portrait, that he has referred to as representing “the other me”, has been entered…
GEORGE MORBY INGRAM was born in Bendigo in 1889, but lived much of his life in Hastings. He died in 1961 and is buried in Frankston cemetery.On 4 October 1918,…
FORTY years ago on the 26 September the nation was transfixed by the race between the two 12 metres, Liberty and Australia II, that was unfolding at Newport, Rhode Island.…
ENVIRONMENTAL warrior Warwick Exton passed away last week, aged 100. Exton was a passionate advocate for preserving Frankston’s waterways and green spaces. His efforts saw him named the Frankston citizen…
