MORDIALLOC life saver Jemma Holt was part of the winning side at the 2024 Lifesaving World Championships National Teams event.Holt is part of Australia’s Youth Simulated Emergency Response Competition team.…
THE winners of the 2024 Kingston Sustainable Business Awards have been announced.Six winners were chosen from 21 finalists. Not a Trace won the small and medium business leadership award, Casafico…
By RSPCA Victoria RSPCA Victoria’s Inspectors are witnessing the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on pets from Melbourne’s inner-east to the Mornington Peninsula and Gippsland. Many families are struggling financially,…
A MAN is wanted after allegedly driving a stolen car to try and rob a Carrum Downs house.Police allege that at around 10.50am on 20 November, a man went to…
THE Peninsula Aquatic Recreation Centre in Frankston will permanently shut down its childcare service this month. The final day of operation for the childcare program will be Friday, 20 December.…
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of two people in Mordialloc. Officers were called to a property on James Street just before 11am on Tuesday morning after reports…
A MORDIALLOC man has been charged with drug trafficking after a series of raids across the south-east of Melbourne last week.Police raided a factory in Moorabbin, two storage sheds in…
SOCCER WHEN Wayne “Buzzer” Gordon runs out in the colours of Peninsula Strikers next year he’ll be playing his 26th straight season of first team football. He’s won championships, promotions…
FINALS fever is in the air, as Frankston hosted its first ever Reclink Footy League Grand Final last week. Frankston’s Kinetic Stadium hosted the event last Wednesday, 11 September. The…
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…
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 -…
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…
