Feature
A NEW junior mayor has been elected. Cheltenham East Primary School grade six student Amelia Holko is Kingston Council’s junior mayor. She was chosen by her peers after a stirring…
STATION Street Mall in Frankston has been named one of the state’s finest outdoor spaces by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. At a virtual awards night, the Frankston spot…
News
A MAN is wanted by police after he exposed his buttocks to two young girls on a Frankston line train. Police say that the man approached the two girls on…
A WOMAN was caught driving more than three times the legal alcohol limit in Mentone last week. Police intercepted the car on Balcombe Road at around 12.50am on 13 June.…
ON 1 May 1989, 42-year-old Christopher Phillips was found dead by his wife in their Cheltenham home. 32 years on from Mr Phillips’ death, police have issued a renewed plea…
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives have arrested a man following an incident in Langwarrin where two police officers were assaulted last week. Officers had been patrolling the Langwarrin area when…
COVID-19
NEW COVID-19 restrictions have been imposed across Melbourne in response to virus cases uncovered in the northern suburbs. From 6pm on 25 May, private gatherings in homes are limited to…
PUBLIC sector aged care residents and staff on the Mornington Peninsula have begun receiving their first doses of COVID-19 vaccine. Residents at Peninsula Health’s Carinya Aged Care Centre at Capel…
VIRAL fragments of coronavirus have been detected in wastewater from Carrum Downs and Langwarrin. The Department of Health announced on 18 February that its wastewater monitoring program found viral fragments…
THE statewide snap lockdown is due to finish at 11.59pm on Wednesday, 17 February. The “circuit-breaker” lockdown was announced by Premier Daniel Andrews last week in response to a growing…
Sport
SOCCER FOOTBALL Victoria aims to restart the 2021 league season this weekend. The state body emailed clubs on Friday with a return to competition update, a link to its updated…
HORSE RACING MATT Laurie’s promising colt Ranveer showed his class with a gutsy win first-up in the heavy conditions at Sandown on Saturday. The Winning Rupert-sired two-year-old had just the…
SOCCER LOCAL soccer is blessed with some excellent sports photographers covering the exploits of clubs throughout the broad peninsula area. They include Darryl Kennedy, Gemma Sliz, Paul Seeley and John…
HORSE RACING MORNINGTON-based trainer Robert Kingston has saddled up his last runner after a decade of competing in the Victorian ranks. Kingston, who claimed his first winner with On Tour…
Entertainment
A SERIES of short films made during last year’s lockdown will be screened at the Frankston Arts Centre later this month. The films were created by local residents for the…
FOLLOWING a hugely successful 2019 sell-out tour, Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody are returning with a Brand New show in 2021 combining Queens ‘Greatest Hits’ and a few of the most…
James Farquharson in front of his artwork at the Frankston Arts Centre. Picture: Supplied STORIES of war are being told through an exhibition at the Frankston Arts Centre. Changed Forever:…
CHITTY Chitty Bang Bang is taking flight at the Frankston Arts Centre. Panorama Theatre Company is staging the production, based on the famous 1968 film starring Dick Van Dyke. The…
Local History
THREE intrepid rover scouts explore Warrumbungle National Park, NSW. By Barry Morris TUCKED away in a closed-up shed at the back of a Mornington Peninsula property rests a cardboard box…
ROBINSON’S Bookshop as it appeared during the 1960s. Philip Robinson and his wife Moria with current Robinson’s owner Susanne Horman in 2017 (below). Pictures: Supplied PHILIP Robinson, founder of Robinson’s…
History lesson: The launch of the Hall on the Hill book will take place on 16 March at 2pm. THE latest publication from the Mornington Peninsula Family History Society centres…
Happy couple: The Musgroves received a letter from the Queen congratulating the for 70 years of marriage. Picture: Gary Sissons BONBEACH couple Reginald and Joyce Musgrove celebrated their 70th anniversary…
