RUGBY By David Burke LAST Friday night (10 July) the Peninsula Dolphins senior women’s tag team headed out to Casey Fields in Cranbourne to face the top of the ladder side, Casey Warriors. After coming off a bye due to state representative City verses Country rugby league round (July 4) the team went in feeling very confident. Over the last fortnight the team had trained in all conditions from pouring rain to a night so foggy they almost couldn’t see each other from 15 metres apart. The weather didn’t stop the enthusiasm and commitment to prepare for matches in any…
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Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following an armed robbery in Mordialloc last week. It is alleged the man approached the counter of a bakery on Main Street about 7.55am on Friday, 3 July. Police will allege the man attempted to take baked goods off the counter without paying. When a staff member asked the man to pay for the items, it is alleged he produced a suspected imitation firearm. The 23-year-old man then fled on foot. No one was physically injured. Today, investigators arrested the man of no fixed address. When he was searched, detectives located…
WHEN Sonja and Ian Duric opened Stories by the Sea in Mount Eliza last year, inclusion was in the blueprint. The independent bookshop has been recognised with the Stan Spencer Award from the Rotary Club of Mount Eliza, which honours significant contributions to education and community life on the peninsula. Sonja and Ian are parents to Neave, who is autistic, and together they spent years confronting the barriers the world places in front of neurodiverse young adults, so their vision for the shop grew from lived experience. Their idea was to open a “sanctuary” – their word – where stories,…
A teenage boy is facing serious charges after allegedly stealing a car from a gym, before setting a factory on fire and causing over one million dollars in damage in Melbourne’s southeast. The arrest comes as police remind gym-goers to keep car keys close or use secure lockers when working out, to best safeguard your property. It will be alleged the keys to a Ford Raptor were stolen from a gym on Highbury Road, Burwood on 9 June, before the vehicle was driven to a factory on Brett Drive in Carrum Downs in the early hours of the following morning.…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough AT the Shire Council meeting Inst Friday opportunity was given “The Standard” representative, by the Shire president to present each councillor with an enlarged photograph, showing the councillors and officers seated at the council table on the occasion of the first meeting in the new municipal chambers. Cr. Oates said he was pleased to accept the photo from “The Standard” and referred to the fine spirit now existing between the local paper and the council. Such a spirit would have magnificent results throughout the district generally. The local press was doing all that was possible to…