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…
Four men were arrested by detectives from Frankston Crime Investigation Unit yesterday as part of an investigation into a number of aggravated burglaries in December and January. The quartet were…
CARRUM MP Sonya Kilkenny has been promoted to the Attorney-General position.Kilkenny assumed the position after former Victorian Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes was named the new treasurer. Kilkenny will retain her role…
A MAN has been charged with murder after an alleged stabbing in Langwarrin on Boxing Day.Yvonne Beres was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband John Beres at their home…
NOMINATIONS for the 2024 Kingston Women of the Year awards are now open. Awards in four categories will be handed out at an event on 7 March next year: courageous…
IT is with deep gratitude, and a sense of sadness, that we say goodbye to our friend and colleague, Keith Platt, who is retiring this week.Life can feel like a…
A GROUP of Mentone students played the role of biomedical scientists last week during a visit to University of Melbourne’s biomedical precinct.Year 10 and 11 students from Mentone Girls Grammar…
MPNFL MEN’S DIV ONEROSEBUD sent Red Hill crashing out of the finals after a scrappy elimination final at Emil Madsen Reserve on Sunday.Red Hill took a one goal lead into…
SOCCER ROSEBUD will play in State 4 South next season after winning promotion from State 5 last weekend. Stuart Johnston’s men hammered bottom side Cleeland United 13-0 at Olympic Park…
MEN’S DIV ONEMORNINGTON celebrated a win for the ages on Saturday, saving themselves from relegation and casting Frankston Bombers into division two. Sitting comfortably last on the MPFNL division one…
SOCCER THE curtain fell on the 2024 VPL1 season last weekend in front of a huge crowd at Lawton Park while the State League promotion and relegation battles continued to…
THE Pines Pool will open for the season this week. The Pines Forest Aquatic Centre reopens on 1 November. Peninsula Leisure operations manager Jarrah Wynne has invited visitors to return…
CELTIC folk duo Half Light will bring their show to Chelsea next week. Half Light, the duo of Rennie Pearson and Bob McNeill, have been touring the country this year.…
AWARD winning author Tricia Stringer will bring her book tour to Frankston later this month. Stringer’s latest book Back on Track touches on relationships and ageism in a story about…
PREPARE to enter a world of entertainment where your imagination will soar like never before, in this re-imagined modern circus spectacular. Silvers has been a household name since the 70’s…
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…
