THE Australian Conservation Foundation (Mornington Community Group) is calling on the state government and the Environmental Protection Authority to immediately implement sustainable procedures to ensure roadside cleanliness in Victoria on…
LIFE for women after traumatic events will be the focus of a keynote speech in Moorabbin next month.Cat Dunn is leading the “Life After I Left” event. Dunn is a…
CLIMATE change and “increasing urbanisation” is endangering the platypus population on the Mornington Peninsula, researchers say. The state’s platypus population is being assessed this spring breeding season using “eDNA testing”.…
KRIS Bolam has been elected mayor of Frankston for the third time. The newly-elected Frankston Council was sworn in at a public meeting last Wednesday, 20 November. During that meeting…
NINE people have now been charged after a near-fatal shooting in Frankston North earlier this month.A 36-year-old Dandenong man was found with a gunshot wound to his head on Armata…
POLICE officers at Frankston Police Station walked off the job last week to protest for a pay rise. Police Association Victoria members working at the station staged a 30 minute…
A SEAL freed from fishing wire in Frankston is expected to make a full recovery. An Australian Fur Seal was found on Frankston Beach near Oliver’s Hill with fishing hook…
PROVINCIALDROMANA’S undefeated start to the 2024/2025 season continued last weekend after a close win over Baden Powell.Overport Park hosted the clash. Baden Powell was sent in to bat first, and…
Soccer SKYE United fans won’t see Marcus Collier leading their senior team into battle again. The 28-year-old midfielder told head coach Phil McGuinness last week that he’d decided to leave…
PROVINCIALDROMANA has fired an early warning shot to the rest of the division after a dominant win over Heatherhill. Dromana wrapped up their second win of the season on Saturday…
SOCCER IT’S taken six years but Langwarrin head coach Jamie Skelly hopes it’s going to be well worth the wait. Wind the clock back to 2018 and Skelly is coaching…
AWARD-winning play The Visitors will be performed at the Frankston Arts Centre later this year.The Visitors is directed by Quandamooka man Wesley Enoch, and won the awards for best mainstage…
ARTIST Ian Hay has won the 2024 Rick Amor Drawing Award. The awards are presented annually by the McClelland Gallery in Langwarrin. The winning piece will now be submitted into…
INDIGENOUS musicians and storytellers will be celebrated at a McClelland Gallery event next month. Celebrating First Nations will take place at McClelland Gallery on 18 May. Didgeridoo artists the Ganga…
NEWLY donated works are now on display as part of a new McClelland Gallery exhibition.Visionary: Recent donations to the McClelland Collection opened on 30 March, and will run until 21…
By Barry Morris TUCKED away in a closed-up shed at the back of a Mornington Peninsula property rests a cardboard box of mouldy, moth-eaten papers and documents from long ago.…
PHILIP Robinson, founder of Robinson’s Bookshop in Frankston, has died aged 89. Mr Robinson died at home with his family by his side on Monday, 10 June. Mr Robinson first…
THE latest publication from the Mornington Peninsula Family History Society centres around the history of culturally-significant Frankston Mechanics’ Institute and free library located on ‘the Hill’ in Bay Street, Frankston.…
BONBEACH couple Reginald and Joyce Musgrove celebrated their 70th anniversary on 22 January. The two were married at Chelsea Congregational Church in 1949, and have been together ever since. Mr…
