Feature
AN Edithvale pizzeria owner put smiles on faces the best way he knows how last week, through the power of pizza. The Bo Gurks restaurant spent three hours handing out…
WITH a lengthy lockdown expected, Peninsula Aquatic Recreation Centre is offering free home workouts for people to complete while stuck inside. PARC classes and workouts are available for free on…
News
ALLEGED thieves who targeted cars parked at railway stations across south-east Melbourne have been arrested and charged. The three men allegedly committed 70 thefts from motor vehicles, and five attempted…
Detectives from Frankston Crime Investigation Unit are hoping to identify a man following a burglary and subsequent deceptions across Melbourne’s south last month. Investigators have been told an unknown man…
A DECISION by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has tenant advocates worried more renters will become homeless now that the moratorium on evictions has ended. At the height of…
A MAN has been arrested on Peninsula Link after allegedly driving a stolen Audi into a police car. Police allege that the man reversed the car into the police vehicle,…
COVID-19
VICTORIA’S sixth lockdown continues into this week, with 11 cases recorded statewide on 9 August. There are currently four active cases of COVID-19 among Frankston residents, in postcodes 3198 and…
VICTORIA has moved out of hard lockdown after the slow of its COVID-19 outbreak. With the lifting of restrictions students have been sent back to school, offices, retail, and gyms…
VICTORIA’S lockdown has been extended by a week to help combat the current outbreak of COVID-19. On 20 July, 13 new locally acquired cases of coronavirus were confirmed. Of those,…
ATTENDEES at a Karingal cinema have been thrown into 14 days of isolation after a COVID-19 positive case saw a film there. The Karingal Village Cinemas has been listed as…
Sport
SOCCER THE strong bond among Seaford United players has underpinned the club’s promotion push this year. That’s the view of club captain Jeremy Schwellinger. “We’ve got good tactics, we’ve got…
SOCCER HE’S played football in more countries than perhaps any other player on the peninsula and he has a close connection with the Smashing Pumpkins. His career has seen him…
HORSE RACING DAVID and Coral Feek continued their successful run of late with their handy mare Belsielle claiming another city win on Saturday 21 August. The Feek partnership utilised a…
SOCCER MORNINGTON and Frankston Pines are on the verge of securing promotion. In the worst case scenario that Football Victoria calls off the remainder of the 2021 season due to…
Entertainment
AFTER a year off the road thanks to the pandemic, shake and stir theatre company are keen to be back on stage and bringing their award winning production of George…
FRANKSTON Libraries has a packed schedule of events for this month. On 15 July, A.W. Hammond will speak at Carrum Downs Library. He will talk about his new novel The…
DURING this dynamic two hour production show Scot Robin who played the lead role in the smash hit musical “Buddy”, (Original cast) together with his Crickets will perform over thirty…
TWO of Queensland’s best-loved actors, Barbara Lowing & Roxanne McDonald, are set to bring their original Australian contemporary theatre production of Rovers to Frankston Arts Centre in July. Rovers is…
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…
