HISTORY buff Margaret Howden is waiting to hear back from Heritage Victoria about saving a Mornington shop front from demolition.…
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IT’S doubtful if anyone’s centenary has been more grandly celebrated – or its recognition more justly deserved – than that…
THE Quarantine Station at Point Nepean played a vital role in keeping early Victorians well away from those carrying disease,…
AN “iconic” Mornington couple who have contributed to their community over the past 50 years will celebrate their 60th anniversary…
A STUDY of the wreck of a small Australian-built ship off Rye has helped Flinders University maritime archaeology students reveal…
LITTLE did the judge know when sentencing a 19-year-old farm labourer to spend years in Britain’s Van Dieman’s land penal…
A MEMORIAL “pilgrimage” conducted at Queenscliff last week has special relevance to families living on the Mornington Peninsula. It marked…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire councillor Hugh Fraser has added to the national debate over Australia Day being 26 January by pointing…
OBITUARY Barry William Leslie Ross 30/1/1943-7/12/2019 Banker, surfer, conservationist BARRY Ross played a major role in the protection of green…
By Barry Morris TUCKED away in a closed-up shed at the back of a Mornington Peninsula property rests a cardboard…
By Doreen Jeremiah JOHN Jeremiah, together with his wife, Joanna and large family, took up land in Old…
A LIMESTONE cottage in Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento, and cargo shed have jointly won the Creative Reuse of a Heritage…
By Lance Hodgins Part Three The members of the 1913 “Greatest Team Ever” JACK CAMPBELL was the 1913 captain and,…
NEW interpretative signs on Tanti Creek, Mornington, explain the natural environment of the creek, and its use by traditional owners…
By Lance Hodgins Part Two The final showdown And so it comes down to a simple matter: which of two…
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…