VICTORIA Police’s Southern Metro Region celebrated National Police Remembrance Day with a service at Rosebud RSL. On 29 September, police officers, government officials, and community members gathered to honour the…
THE family of 12-year-old Marnie, this year’s school captain from Hastings Primary School, have turned to the community for support as the vibrant student faces a battle against childhood cancer.…
THE Mornington Peninsula “Friends of Lospalos” group will this week continue their major ophthalmic cataract outreach surgical clinic in Timor-Leste. A self-funded team of five will continue the initiative to…
NESTING season has begun for one of Victoria’s most threatened species, hooded plovers. The Conservation Regulator’s Operation “Save our Hoodies” (SoHo) is underway for the sixth year to help the…
CAPEL Sound Community Hub has launched its new community garden, supported by Chobani’s Big Difference grant. On 24 September, a celebratory lunch was held at the Community Hub in Capel…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire Mayor Stephen Batty has attended a community gathering at Portsea Front Beach to hear local concerns about the future of the beach and the ongoing coastal management…
PAUL Mercurio pulled off an unlikely victory in 2022, swinging the seat of Hastings to Labor for the first time in 16 years. Less than two months out from the…
MEMBER for Hastings, Paul Mercurio, has announced a re-elected Carroll Labor government will invest $5m to support a new pavilion and redeveloped grounds at Somerville Recreation Reserve. “Currently, the reserve’s…
IT’s less than eight weeks until the state election on 28 November, and Labor is still to announce candidates for the seats of Mornington and Nepean. A Labor insider told…
OVER the last 18 months Rotary has been committed to a project to refurbish seven apartments, The Ranch 2.0, the only short term crisis accommodation on the Mornington Peninsula. The…
A GROUP of local art students are holding an exhibition and auction to raise funds for Mornington Peninsula Koala Conservation and Southern Peninsula Community Support. The exhibition will open at…
RESIDENTS from three Regis aged care homes on the peninsula came together for a sustainable fashion showcase, celebrating months of creativity and hard work. Regis Capel Sound, Rosebud, and Mornington…
SOCCER FRANKSTON Pines is the Metropolitan Club of the Year. The local outfit won Football Victoria’s prestigious award at a gala function at Crown Palladium last week in front of…
MPFNL MEN’S DIV ONE SEN DROMANA held off a frantic last quarter fightback to win the MPFNL Men’s Division One grand final on Sunday (20 September) at Kinetic Stadium. While…
SOCCER WHEN Bray Hodgkinson steps down as president at Baxter’s upcoming AGM it will end a tumultuous seven-year reign that threatened to end months after it began. Hodgkinson became president…
MPFNL MEN’S DIV TWO SEN RED Hill are the 2026 MPFNL Division Two Senior Men premiers after defeating Chelsea by 28 points on Sunday (13 September). The game began tentatively…
NATIONAL Works on Paper 2026 has opened at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG), with Adam Lee awarded the exhibition’s prestigious $20,000 acquisitive prize for his work You are the wind,…
MONTY Python’s SPAMALOT will open at the historic Athenaeum Theatre this September. The Melbourne season will see this incredibly diverse and talented cast take to the stage, led by Australian…
ONE of Shakespeare’s most gripping tragedies is set to captivate audiences at Frankston Arts Centre when Bell Shakespeare’s acclaimed production of Macbeth arrives for a one-night performance on Tuesday 27…
IF you missed the work of local Mornington Peninsula artists at the 2026 AGRA Exhibition of The Australian Guild of Realist Artists in Melbourne – you have another opportunity to…
Ric de Vries has spent a lifetime around the water. It started when an 18-year-old Ric moved to Cape Paterson and landed a job with Fisheries. That was the beginning…
Black figs carry deep meaning in Aboriginal ways of knowing. They’re associated with birthing, nourishment, and community gathering, so it seemed the right name for a café built to do…
by Andrea Louise Thomas Somerville chef and hospitality trainer, Marlene Hoff, has been quietly changing lives for years, serving up nutrition for the body, mind and spirit. Everything she does comes…
Kelly Nash has spent her life saying yes to things that terrify her. She left a secure teaching career in her late twenties to become an actor, despite resistance from…
OBITUARYCharles Edward Jacobsen26 May 1937 – 14 August 2026 CHARLES Edward Jacobsen, known to most simply as Chas, was a pioneer, a builder, an adventurer, a visionary and a family…
THE Murrowong Ave Dog Park community is mourning the loss of two of their much-loved regulars, Richard Allen and his Maltese-Pomeranian cross, Teddy. Richard passed away on 10 August, less…
HASTINGS has lost one of its most dedicated servants with the death of Brian Stahl. The 88-year-old was revered in the community for his work and advocacy over many decades.…
By Lance Hodgins ABOUT 50 close friends, councillors and several generations of family members gathered in the Hastings Community Hub on Friday 7 August in special recognition of Brian Stahl…
