IT may have taken 50 years, but Rye grandmother Wendy Burgis has finally achieved her most treasured birthday wish: to…
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Little did she know as she grew up, but it was probably inevitable that Alexandra Dellaportas’s artistic eye would see…
FIVE years after her husband was murdered in front of her in a drug-fuelled attack, Bridget O’Toole has been awarded…
THE spirit of the Mornington Peninsula green wedge has been captured by the brushstrokes of 100 artists in the inaugural…
CELEBRATIONS come and go with regularity, most often marked by years. And this has become the norm for members of…
By Barry Morris CHILDREN are concerned about climate change and the impact it will have on their lives, says author,…
CHANGING schools can have a detrimental effect on a student’s mental health and academic performance. Exploring the effects of “school…
MT ELIZA boxing trainer and fitness coach Ron Smith certainly “carries the reminders of ev’ry glove that laid him down…
TYABB artist Jeanne Rachelle White has been invited to exhibit at the International Naive Art Festival in Katowice, Poland, next…
A YEAR of intense training paid off earlier this month when Michael Cole and Laura Skvor cooked their way into…
LONG-TIME Mornington resident Su-Rose McIntyre lost her only child when he was 26 almost a decade ago, after he suffered…
WRITER and actor Kate Mulvany has written a play based on a book that takes its readers out of this…
RON Gilbert was a bit of a joker. He saw the bright side of things. He wasn’t afraid to poke…
WHEN Maria Peters looks back on a 30-year career at Chisholm TAFE Institute she says it is the camaraderie between…
A FORMER bush walker turned bush poet will have her poetry preserved in print in a project that proves it…
JEWELLERY artist Katrina Newman, of McCrae, has returned from a Canadian Wilderness Artists Residency saying it was “an experience like…
AUTHOR Fran Henke realised the need for a book outlining the latest expert advice for polio survivors after attending a…
By Tony Nicholl THE Mornington Peninsula has many retirees with a story or even a book, and Eric Brewer is…
A MT MARTHA doctor has for 30 years been able to combine her twin loves: scuba diving and medicine. In…
ROSEBUD’S Mark Krieger has spent three years working on his latest book: High Spain Drifter, based around cycling in Europe.…
KATHRYN Whatmore knows all about the pressures felt by the wives and girlfriends of professionals cricketers – especially when their…
Howard Bull tells us about Mt Eliza’s own Reginald Ansett and how Channel Ten was born… NETWORK Ten is again…
WATCHING as a pair of lightweight, sharp-eyed swallows built a mud nest under the eaves of a house in Seaford…
A LAWYER working in Frankston and on the Mornington Peninsula has been recognised as one of the best in the…
WHILE many people plan a huge party when they reach the milestone age of 60, it’s not something Somerville grandmother…
A LIFE-CHANGING visit to Borneo to help rear endangered orangutans came about after a Somerville woman was asked to “do…
IT’S been a life punctuated by parental and societal abandonment, cruelty and betrayal, near-death experiences and fragmented relationships, yet Mornington’s…
FOR Mt Martha resident, father of three and Melbourne firefighter Rob Newton, the path to becoming an author was anything…
THE huge crane working above a large commercial site in Nepean Highway, Mornington, has been turning drivers’ heads for a…
THE adage of getting knocked down and then getting straight back up again describes Karen Stevens, 46, of Rosebud, to…