SOCCER By Craig MacKenzie FOUR local clubs are in the hunt for title honours after six rounds of the 2016 soccer season. Mornington is equal on points with league leader Malvern City, Skye and Baxter head their respective leagues while Rosebud Heart is breathing down the neck of its Baxter Park arch rival. Mornington found Mooroolbark a tough nut to crack but fashioned a 2-1 win in their State 1 South-East clash at Dallas Brooks Park on Saturday. Andy McCabe’s visitors deservedly went in 1-0 up at the interval thanks to a 43rd-minute strike from Adam Doughty. During the break…
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With a career spanning almost twenty years, half a million album sales, gold and platinum albums and eight Golden Guitar Awards, Adam Harvey is back in black, telling the story of Johnny Cash with country music belle Catherine Britt. The Man In Black has been reloaded after two sell-out seasons at the Sydney Opera House and an 18-month Australia-wide tour. The acclaimed show, originally starring Tex Perkins narrating the life of Johnny Cash, won a Helpmann Award for Best Contemporary Australian Concert. Starring in this year’s tour of The Man In Black, Adam Harvey is one of Australia’s most popular…
“It may be called the finest thing in Australasian history. It was a revolution – small in size but great politically; it was a strike for liberty, a struggle for principle, a stand against injustice and oppression. … It is another instance of a victory won by a lost battle” Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897) WHEN Fran Henke wanted someone to launch her latest historical novel she had to look no further than at the words she had written. Kerry McNarn, district nurse, wedding celebrant whose name and personality form the basis for a “character” used in two of…
THE political pre-election promises for Frankston have kicked off ahead of the 2 July federal election with Labor pledging to contribute $1.5 million in funding for a business case for the full duplication and electrification of the rail line from Frankston to Baxter. The long-mooted project, put on the backburner by successive governments at a federal and state level for decades, has been resurrected as a goer by the Labor state government as part of the $63 million redevelopment of Frankston train station and its surrounds. Former deputy prime minister Anthony Albanese, federal Labor Transport and Infrastructure spokesman, visited Frankston…
FRANKSTON line commuters face more short-term pain for long-term gain with the rail line set to be closed between Caulfield and Moorabbin stations for more than a month from the end of June. Buses will replace trains between the stations for 37 days from 24 June until 31 July so level crossing removals at Ormond, McKinnon and Bentleigh stations can be completed. The works to separate road from rail, described as a “massive winter construction blitz” by the Labor state government, will be finished by August. Acting Premier James Merlino said the three level crossings will be removed by August,…