MORE than 3000 rates notices will have to be reissued after Kingston Council undercharged some property owners.The state government’s new emergency services levy, which will be collected by Victorian councils…
FRANKSTON’S mayor and deputy mayor will spend an extra three weeks in charge of council. At council’s most recent public meeting, the mayor Kris Bolam raised a proposal to extend…
Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged two teenagers following a series of serious crimes across the southern suburbs of Melbourne this month. A 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy…
A PLAN to tackle graffiti across Frankston is underway, with a cash reward for residents who report it now on offer.Earlier this year, Cr Nathan Butler successfully proposed that council…
THE annual Street Art Festival returns to Frankston’ CBD this month. Between 17 and 23 March, artists will paint large-scale murals across Frankston. More than 100 murals will be painted.Artists…
SAGES Cottage in Baxter has launched its own nursery for locally grown plants and products. The Baxter cottage hosts people living with disabilities, and allows them to gain work experience…
FUNDRAISING by the Blue Ribbon Foundation is underway to purchase two new life support machines for Peninsula Health.The extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machines cost $300,000. The new machines will be installed…
MPNFL MEN’SROSEBUD and Sorrento took centre stage on Saturday at Olympic Park. Just one point separated the two sides at the first break. Sorrento were the better side in the…
Soccer KYLE Eichenberger’s signing could be Baxter’s saviour as it heads into the second half of the season with renewed hope that it can maintain its State 4 South status.…
MPNFL MEN’S DIV ONESORRENTO looked to get their season back on track last weekend on the road against Pines. The Sharks have endured a difficult 2025 season so far, languishing…
Soccer SEAFORD United is on target for a top six finish in State 5 South with Saturday’s 2-1 win over Aspendale. This game was broken open by three second-half goals…
A BOOK on the history of art in Frankston has won a major award. On Bunurong Country: Art and Design in Frankston was edited by University of Melbourne art historian…
AWARD-winning author Alice Pung will speak at Mentone Public Library next month. Pung is the author of the novels One Hundred Days and Her Father’s Daughter. She has also edited…
THREE decades of the Mornington Peninsula’s surfing history are being carried around in a mobile museum. The seven new surfboards in the museum represent the pointy end of surfing -…
THE Waterfront Festival will return to Frankston next month. The 2024 edition of the festival will take place on 10 and 11 February. The schedule includes live music, food and…
THE latest series in the TV show Underbelly focuses on the 1920s life and crimes of Melbourne criminal Leslie ‘Squizzy’ Taylor – a feared thug with a reputation for violence…
ONE of Frankston’s most colourful personalities at the turn of last century was an unlikely celebrity who sought obscurity in a hermit’s existence. According to stories circulating at the time,…
In 1932, two people drowned after their car plunged off the end of Mordialloc pier. The following account is taken from contemporary newspaper reports. ROYDEN Kennedy Patterson was a wealthy…
