A TEAM of Peninsula Health doctors and nurses have returned from a journey to Papua New Guinea as part an eight-day medical expedition led by the “No Roads Expeditions Foundation”.Papua…
FIREFIGHTERS from the CFA’s Westernport Group, which spans from Frankston to Shoreham, have teamed up to make a mass blood donation. 30 volunteer firefighters donated blood in Frankston on 31…
WORKS on the new play space at Ballam Park are complete, and work is forging ahead on the next upgrades. The latest batch of works at Ballam Park have come…
SIX people have been arrested in relation to a Frankston North shooting which left a man with life-threatening injuries.A man was found with a serious gunshot wound on Armata Crescent…
Armed Crime Squad detectives have arrested six people after a man was shot in Frankston North on Monday night. It’s alleged the 36-year-old was shot during an altercation with a…
DOGS are now banned from being off-leash along most beaches on the Kingston foreshore after 10am.The new guidelines for off-leash dogs came into effect on 1 November. At Carrum, Bonbeach,…
VICTORIA Police is sending out officers to aged care facilities to inform staff about the dangers of elder abuse. The police presentations are designed to educate aged care workers on…
MPFNL MEN’S DIV ONETHE Mt Eliza Football Netball Club celebrated one of the greatest days in its history last Sunday when it took home three football premiership trophies from Kinetic…
SOCCER THERE is nothing daunting about Charlie Platt’s first senior coaching assignment. Self-belief is the buffer for any possible doubts about his ability to cope with the role Mount Martha…
MPFNL MEN’S DIV ONEMT Eliza has earned its spot in the Division One Grand Final. The Redlegs played Frankston YCW at Rosebud on Sunday afternoon, with the winner set to…
SOCCER RELEGATION, retirements and a remarkable comeback made for a roller-coaster final round of the 2024 State League season. There also was a significant personal milestone in the much-lauded career…
TASMANIAN Aboriginal artist Caleb Nichols-Mansell will deliver a talk at McClelland Gallery this weekend. Nichols-Mansell is cultural adviser to Dark Mofo and the founder of Blackspace Creative Arts and Cultural…
A BOOK on the history of art in Frankston has won a major award. On Bunurong Country: Art and Design in Frankston was edited by University of Melbourne art historian…
AWARD-winning author Alice Pung will speak at Mentone Public Library next month. Pung is the author of the novels One Hundred Days and Her Father’s Daughter. She has also edited…
THREE decades of the Mornington Peninsula’s surfing history are being carried around in a mobile museum. The seven new surfboards in the museum represent the pointy end of surfing -…
JOHN Schultz knows a thing or two about football jumpers. He’s grabbed plenty as their wearers flashed past on the footy field. But he also knows they were once the…
FLEDGLING surfboard makers Paul and Phil Trigger thought they had a great idea when it came to naming and identifying their surfboards: “Let’s start with the First Dimension”. This was…
“A SURVIVOR” is how Alan Scoble describes his late-grandfather Handley Scoble, who enlisted for World War I at the Frankston Mechanics’ Institute in early 1917 and then joined the other…
HISTORY buffs know about the Rose Series of postcards produced by Victorian photographer George Rose’s business, the Rose Stereograph Company. Many scenes of the Mornington Peninsula were captured by Rose…
