A DONATION drive will help to make Christmas a day to remember for people in Frankston doing it tough. Christmas Giving Trees have been set up across Frankston for people…
A NEW sculpture has been installed at the Peninsula Link’s Cranbourne Road ramp. Compass 2023 by artist Natasha Johns-Messenger was placed at the site last week. The steel pole sculpture…
SIXTEEN days of events promoting activism against gender-based violence have begun. The anti-violence campaign is observed across the country. In the Kingston municipality, an intense roller derby match will headline…
Officers from Carrum Downs Uniform are appealing for witnesses to come forward following a collision in Frankston last month. Investigators have been told a red Honda CBR650 motorcycle was seen…
WEAPONS and drugs were seized from a Carrum Downs address last month, police say. Police attended a property on Lats Road in Carrum Downs on 24 November as part of…
THE new $4.5 million home for Carrum Surf Life Saving Club has been officially opened. The facility was built with $2.1 million in state government money and $2.4 million from…
KINGSTON Council has drafted a plan to create a more accessible area for people living with disabilities. Council’s four-year “all-abilities action plan” outlines 31 actions which can be taken to…
THE Bonbeach Baseball Club played its first match under lights last week. Last year Kingston Council committed $125,000 towards the construction of new lighting at the baseball club. At the…
SOCCER BILLY Painting joined Rosebud last week hellbent on being part of the Olympic Park club’s title tilt next year. “I’m not just here to make up the numbers –…
SOCCER KEEGAN Myatt would like nothing better than to strike fear into the heart of opposition defenders next season. Baxter’s 20-year-old left winger has held his own debrief of season…
CRICKET PROVINCIAL SOME good bowling has put Sorrento in pole position for a win over Langwarrin on the first day of their two-day clash. Langwarrin chose to bat first on…
STAGE legends Lucy Durack and Rob Mills are set to headline the free Carols by Kingston show this weekend. Carols by Kingston will take place at Bicentennial Park in Chelsea…
THE Frankston Arts Centre’s program for 2024 has been unveiled. A lineup of signature events and shows for 2024 was unveiled at a season launch event last week. Among the…
PLOS Musical Productions’ first show of 2024 will be an adaptation of a classic Steven Speilberg film. Catch Me If You Can The Musical opens at Frankston Arts Centre on…
FRANKSTON’S famous beaches and waterways have inspired a new photographic exhibition. You, Me and the Sea: Portraits of Frankston by photographer Kristina Kraskov has opened at the Frankston Arts Centre’s…
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…
OBITUARYDorothy Meadows, 27/6/28 – 29/4/23Friends of Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands founding member, author, teacher By Linda Meadows DOROTHY Elizabeth Meadows OAM who recently passed away is being hailed as a community legend,…
A WORLD War II veteran received three certificates honouring him for his service at a special event this month. 103-year-old Geoff Bydder lives in Seaford with his wife Normie. At…
