AN application to expand an existing quarry in Langwarrin has been refused by the Minister for Planning. On 7 October, Minister for Planning Sonya Kilkenny refused a Development Facilitation Program…
THE St John of God Rehabilitation Hospital in Frankston is set to be converted into an aged care facility. Earlier this month, St John of God Health Care confirmed that…
FIREFIGHTERS protested outside the office of Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke last week calling for greater pay and more protections. Edbrooke was appointed emergency services minister by Premier Ben Carroll earlier…
Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit detectives continue to investigate a stabbing in Mordialloc last night. Investigators have been told a man sustained deep lacerations to his wrists during a brawl between…
FRANKSTON City will celebrate 60 years since its official declaration as a city on 24 August 1966, with a weekend of free events across the CBD from 21 to 23…
FRANKSTON City Council’s Positive Ageing team will partner with Frankston Library to launch The Letterbox Project, an anonymous letter exchange, on 4 August. The project will run every Tuesday from…
STUDENTS from Frankston Heights Primary School planted hundreds of trees across Wallace Reserve in Frankston last week. The students teamed up with The Friends of Wallace Reserve for a Schools…
SOCCER SCOTT Morrison has returned to the senior coaching role at Peninsula Strikers. The club made the announcement late last week three days after announcing the departure of this year’s…
SOCCER FRANKSTON Pines is the Metropolitan Club of the Year. The local outfit won Football Victoria’s prestigious award at a gala function at Crown Palladium last week in front of…
MPFNL MEN’S DIV ONE SEN DROMANA held off a frantic last quarter fightback to win the MPFNL Men’s Division One grand final on Sunday (20 September) at Kinetic Stadium. While…
SOCCER WHEN Bray Hodgkinson steps down as president at Baxter’s upcoming AGM it will end a tumultuous seven-year reign that threatened to end months after it began. Hodgkinson became president…
RECREATING the sound of Jeff Lynn’s Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) With an iconic “spaceship” aesthetic and a relentless string of hits like “Mr. Blue Sky,” “Don’t Bring Me Down,” and…
THE Sydney Writers’ Festival Live & Local program is coming to Frankston Library this May, livestreaming author talks and panel discussions for free as part of a national program connecting…
THE Western Port Writes Literary Festival is returning in 2026, and to kick off the festival year, they are thrilled to welcome celebrated TV presenter and journalist Lisa Millar for…
FRANKSTON will shine as a hub of arts and culture when South Side Festival returns next week, bringing 10 nights of performances, installations and community experiences to the heart of…
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…
