NOMINATIONS for the 2024 Kingston Women of the Year awards are now open. Awards in four categories will be handed out at an event on 7 March next year: courageous…
IT is with deep gratitude, and a sense of sadness, that we say goodbye to our friend and colleague, Keith Platt, who is retiring this week.Life can feel like a…
A GROUP of Mentone students played the role of biomedical scientists last week during a visit to University of Melbourne’s biomedical precinct.Year 10 and 11 students from Mentone Girls Grammar…
A CRIB Point man has been arrested for allegedly performing a Nazi salute at a protest earlier this year.The 63-year-old Crib Point man allegedly attended the protest at the Land…
THE Carrum Downs community is rallying around a young woman who is facing life-changing injuries. More than $120,000 has been raised for Carrum Downs woman Ashley Howlett. She suffered horrific…
PENINSULA Health has been penalised more than $300,000 after failing to pay a junior doctor for working overtime.Dr Gaby Bolton began working at Peninsula Health at the beginning of 2019,…
WAYNE Holdsworth has been nominated for the Australian of the Year award. The Frankston District Basketball Association CEO has become one of the country’s leading advocates for suicide prevention. His…
MPFNL MEN’S DIV ONEDROMANA has moved one step closer to premiership glory after booking its spot in the Grand Final.Dromana played Frankston YCW in the semi-final at Olympic Park in…
SOCCER ROSEBUD won the State 5 South championship last weekend while Frankston Pines took a giant step towards avoiding relegation from State 3 South-East. It’s Rosebud’s first senior men’s title…
MPNFL MEN’S DIV ONEROSEBUD sent Red Hill crashing out of the finals after a scrappy elimination final at Emil Madsen Reserve on Sunday.Red Hill took a one goal lead into…
SOCCER ROSEBUD will play in State 4 South next season after winning promotion from State 5 last weekend. Stuart Johnston’s men hammered bottom side Cleeland United 13-0 at Olympic Park…
THE Waterfront Festival will return to Frankston next month. The 2024 edition of the festival will take place on 10 and 11 February. The schedule includes live music, food and…
MORE than a decade after starting out in a Frankston backyard, Corey Topp and Mark Middo will return to where it all started to host the Reminisce Decades music event…
A TRIBUTE to the golden age of Hollywood will grace the stage at Kingston Arts Centre next month. Luke Alleva, accompanied by a three-piece band, will perform his show ‘The…
THE finalists of the 2024 Rick Amor Drawing Award have been announced. The drawing competition, overseen by McClelland Gallery in Langwarrin, is in its second year. It had 150 applicants…
CHILDREN attending Sunday school at Aspendale Presbyterian church in 1927 received their religious teaching while sitting under a tree. It was adults only inside the church. In the past 90…
MEMORIES good and bad came flooding back when a former child patient of a now-dilapidated and disused Mt Eliza children’s hospital visited the Jacksons Rd site last week. Don Lawson,…
WITH a cake, candles and a happy birthday buzz, Frankston Hospital last week celebrated 75 years as an integral part of the Mornington Peninsula community. Since opening on 30 November…
VICTORIA’S longest serving police officers were honoured at a special morning tea at Parliament House last week. Police Minister Lisa Neville and Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton hosted the event in…
