WORK has started on the first stage of the 120-bed The Bays Aged Care Home at Hastings. It is part…
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“RELENTLESS hard work and environmental activism” lay behind the Save Westernport group’s receipt of the annual Community Environment Recognition Award…
ABOUT 100 residents packed Balnarring Hall last week for a community information session put on by Arcare. The aged care…
SOMERVILLE Highway Patrol police are appealing for witnesses after a car’s tyres were slashed and its panels sprayed with graffiti…
MOTORISTS are warned to be on the lookout for “vulnerable road users” – such as pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists –…
A MAN walking along High Street, Hastings, Thursday night 1 November, was airlifted to The Alfred hospital with serious, but…
TOUGHER penalties for breaking road rules came into effect over the Melbourne Cup long weekend. Under new road rules as…
THE Melbourne Cup has been run and won – and so has the police Operation Furlong which ran over the…
BROTHERS Bradley and Lucas Banks are excited to be taking part in the annual Kids Fun Run with K163 this…
VOLUNTEERS experienced in repairing household goods are opening up a repair cafe in Mornington. Members of the Peninsula branch of…
MORNINGTON Botanical Rose Garden volunteers are this week celebrating a decade of delight in their floral haven. It’s a labour…
PREMIER Daniel Andrews’ election promise last week to establish more parks and increase protection of green wedges has been welcomed…
THE Only Butt campaign was rolled out across Rye as a pilot campaign in July with bin-size posters adorning Pt…
A LAND management program on the Mornington Peninsula is not only helping to control weeds and pests – it’s also…
Southern Peninsula Food for All with $3910 in hand is striving hard to reach a target of $55,000 for its…
A GROUP of Rosebud Secondary College students acted quickly – and kindly – last week to help an elderly woman…
AN Education Department spokesperson has described as a “serious error of judgement” an incident in which Dromana Secondary College students…
A LONG-SERVING officer has amplified fears the southern Mornington Peninsula is facing a desperate shortage of front-line police this holiday…
OUR Lady of Fatima primary school has a strong tradition of respecting Remembrance Day and Anzac Day through art activities…
OCTOBER was Breast Cancer Awareness Month with many events fundraising for research. One was the 7th Annual Pink Ribbon Breakfast…
Mornington Peninsula Shire has changed tack and virtually ruled out backing Baxter as the end of the electrified train line…
A PILOT plant at Hastings to turn hydrogen gas into liquid before being shipped to Japan is scheduled to be…
FEATHERS were flying in Red Hill last week when neighbours discovered asbestos sheeting was being removed from a disused chicken…
WONDER Woman Walk organiser Helen Powell said she was “amazed and overwhelmed” by the huge turn-out of supporters, Sunday 14…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire’s representative on the Triple A Housing Committee Cr Simon Brooks said that of the 2000 requests for…
A ROSEBUD man has been charged with carjacking, conduct endangering serious injury, recklessly causing injury, theft, and driving offences over…
CRYSTAL Ocean wildlife volunteer Georgia Naylor was horrified to find a fledgling magpie stoned to death at Martha Cove last…
THE state Opposition says it will pay $1.4 million over four years for headspace to provide outreach services to 12…
THE state government is still undecided about a temporary fence being built at The Pillars cliff jumping site despite a…
A HUGE multi-national supermarket outside the existing commercial zone in Mornington would “destroy the prominent entry gateway to [Mornington]”. The…