By Lance Hodgins Part Two The final showdown And so it comes down to a simple matter: which of two…
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By Lance Hodgins Part One HASTINGS Football Club has an outstanding history. Since its founding in 1889, there have been…
IT was many happy returns for Kunyung Primary School last week when celebrating its 40th anniversary with a big cake…
FORMER Balnarring resident David Wisken thought he was seeing double when visiting The Sir John Monash Centre at Villers-Bretonneux, France,…
THE iconic Mini Minor still radiates an intoxicating air of engineering elan and “swinging 60s” fashion flair in the eyes…
IT’S hard to doubt Sorrento CFA veteran Greg Salmon when he says his 50-year medal presentation was “one of the…
THE edition of Western Port News dated 30 August, 2011 told of the enormous contribution made to the Tyabb Football…
ON 30 June light from the Cape Schanck lighthouse will have been shining into Bass Strait for 160 years. Now…
TAKING a close look at the history of a cement works at Mornington can easily turn into probing ancient geological…
By Fred Wild EWART Melbourne Brindle saw his first Rolls Royce Silver Ghost on Dromana Esplanade on a summer afternoon…
AN organisation serving the disadvantaged around Western Port celebrated its 40th birthday with 40 guests at Flinders Golf Club. Western…
THE finding of Matthew Flinders’ grave during excavations for the London railway inspired historians to hold a small ceremony in…
ANZAC Day in Mornington can be solemn for those that served and those who remember, but it can also be…
A MT ELIZA couple who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last week have strong links to one of the world’s…
A SMALL holiday house perched on a cliff above Ranelagh Beach at Mt Eliza will be open to the public…
JO Cooper is a woman with a firm grasp on history. The Peninsula Grange resident who celebrated her 102nd birthday…
MEMBERS of the Somerville Community House and several community groups and the Sage family met on Saturday 23 February to…
FOR many visitors to Mornington and for many of its residents, Alexandra Park is the place at the top of…
OBITUARY Michael Owen Parkinson, 1954-2019Surfer Eat your chips first; no one’s going to take your flake. Sounds like good advice,…
Family and friends of Jannetje Witte went to The Bays aged care home in Hastings to celebrate her 100th birthday.…
FAMILIES descended from the original French Island Thompsons flocked to the Tankerton Memorial Hall for a 125th reunion. More than…
LENA Taranto has come a long way in a long time. The mother of three, who enjoyed a 100th birthday…
During the holidays, 85-year-old grandmother Joy Gray (nee Bird) and her family visited Point Nepean National Park, Portsea. Ms Gray…
A MAN described as “Mr Mt Martha” passed away on Tuesday 6 November. John Pingiaro, 95, played a big role…
A CHARMING photograph of a Mt Martha grandfather and his granddaughter marching in the Mornington Anzac Day parade last year…
RETIRING Mornington police senior sergeant Neil Aubert well remembers perhaps the most dangerous incident in his 46-year career. In 1989,…
CHARCOAL sketching, marbles, skipping ropes, wool craft and butter making were just some of the activities enjoyed by Osborne Primary…
SORRENTO’S landmark Stringers Store is being readied for its next century. The two-storey limestone building, which changed hands in March,…
OBITUARY Nick Columb, 1946-2018 Journalist, racehorse owner, football club president By Peter McCullough SPORTING identity Nick Columb died on Friday…
A RYE man and former sailor who served in waters off Vietnam feels honoured to have been allowed to perform…