ONE hundred years ago this month – on 11 December 1916 – a group of Mornington residents met at the…
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FORMER Dromana State School student and art prodigy Ewart Melbourne Brindle went on to become one of the most recognised…
MORNINGTON Tennis Club’s long-time life member Sylvia Pingiaro has written a history of the club, which turned 125 in April.…
IT is not hard to find a connection to surfing on the Mornington Peninsula with Australian surfing great Bernard “Midget”…
IN July, 2008 the The News printed a short obituary on Des Duguid who had passed away at the age of 76.…
OBITUARY Kenneth Jack Spunner, 24 August 1927–18 June 2016, rabbit trapper, registered hairdresser, wool valuer, dairyman, wool grower, market gardener,…
PETER Munro feels he’s near the end of a campaign to have the names of two Sorrento boys killed in…
AN “exceptionally well preserved” Aboriginal hearth has been found at Point Nepean National Park. The presence of heat retaining stones…
A MAN with a passion for history is keeping the memories of our ancestors alive. Ray Gibb, of Rosebud, has…
RYE Historical Society has completed repairs at the Old Schoolhouse, and up-graded its displays inside its small museum. As well…
IT was on for young an old on Saturday 28 May when Beleura Hill Preschool celebrated their 50th anniversary. It…
By Lance Hodgins IN round seven last year Hastings Football Club defeated Tyabb by the massive margin of 224 points…
VICTORIA’S longest-running camp, YMCA Camp Manyung, is celebrating the restoration of its historic outside chapel, the Crosby Memorial Chapel, after…
THREE authors have started a crowdfunding campaign for funds to publish a history of Mt Eliza’s famous Ranelagh Estate. Ranelagh…
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them or the years…
OF the 120 listed on the honour roll in Mornington’s Memorial Park, a number were decorated for bravery under fire.…
BEFORE moving to Mornington the Bates family lived in Frankston and Robert played for that team. The Mornington Standard of…
THE father of Robert Bates, Alfred Edward Bates was the son of Robert Jackson Bates, a leading English cotton manufacturer.…
IN a quiet corner of the Tyabb cemetery in Hastings can be found the grave of Leading Signalman Albert Norman…
HMAS Goorangai was the first Royal Australian Navy ship lost in World War II, the first RAN surface ship lost…
IN his book “Those We Forget”, published in 2014, David Noonan comments on the “casualties” which occurred after the…
THIS recent publication, Great courage and initiative – The heroic life of George Ingram VC, MM, by A J McAleer,…
SOMERVILLE historian and author Leila Shaw has died at age 88 after a short illness. Mrs Shaw founded the Somerville,…
FORMER students of Dromana College are planning a variety of celebrations for the college’s 50th anniversary this time next year.…
AFTER a twelve month battle with cancer Ben Mayne, a highly-respected citizen of Hastings, passed away on 18 February, 2016.…
VETERAN international yachtsman John Houston Buzaglo is known around the world as “Buz” although some of his mates have taken…
MORNINGTON Yacht Club has come a long way since 11 interested residents met to discuss forming a sailing club in…
DON Prout moved to Tyabb when he completed his electrical apprenticeship at the age of 21. For the past 66…
Words and picture: Barry Irving THIRTY-three Mornington Peninsula war veterans gathered at Rye RSL on Saturday to take part in…
THE story about the new audio tour of Mornington’s historic buildings generated comment from readers lamenting the loss of the…