CESARE Bonacini turns 100 on Wednesday this week (17 August) and sees Main Ridge Bowls and Petanque Club as his “spiritual bowls home, his palace”. “This diminutive, always affable Italian…
BOXING legend Johnny Famechon has died aged 77. A Frankston resident for five decades, Famechon was born Jean-Pierre in France, moving to Australia as a young child with his family…
MOUNT Eliza resident Jodi Richardson has lived with anxiety all her life but faced the constant hurdle of nobody else really understanding what she was going through. The businesswoman, author…
AFTER more than two years of frustration, Mornington Peninsula Shire has finally answered the call: $407,238 has been locked in to fix the stairs at Birdrock Beach in Mt Martha.The…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire will spend $260,000 on the Hastings Club building so it can be repurposed into a space for community groups. The funding announcement was confirmed at the council’s…
Investigators from Casey, Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Crime Investigation units joined forces to arrest a man allegedly involved in a string of crime across a three-week period in Melbourne’s southeastern…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire councillors have thrown their support behind a proposal to build a scenic path connecting Mornington to Moorooduc along the railway corridor. The initiative would form part of…
Federal Election
MPNFL DIVISION ONE IT was a day of celebration for Frankston YCW on Saturday, as they started their season with a gritty come-from-behind win over Bonbeach. The two sides got…
A FIELD of 108 will contest the $200,000 National PGA Classic from Tuesday to Friday on The National’s reworked Gunnamatta course at Cape Schanck. Players include Fortinet Australian PGA championship…
SOCCER PENINSULA Strikers have made their best start to a league season since 2016. A revamped senior squad under new coach Donn Delaney relied on a 22nd minute Cooper Andrews…
HORSE RACING IN a rarity for the Mornington races, it was looking as though no Mornington-based trainer would get a win at the feature Mornington Cup meeting on Saturday 26…
WIRE sculptor Annie Glass is patiently bending and winding galvanised steel wire around her first scarecrow as a tribute to the classic children’s movie the Wizard of Oz. “I’ve always…
THE Crib 208 Arts Studio in Crib Point will host art royalty when renowned maritime artist, Richard Linton, comes in for a discussion at 4pm on Tuesday 13 September The…
By Debra Mar – RPPFM Like it or not – we are all getting older – and so is the Mornington Peninsula’s population. So starting Thursday, September 1st at 11am,…
THE life stories of migrants who call Frankston home will be aired on community television C31 next month. The four-part Faces of Frankston TV series, produced by Mornington filmmakers Whitewater…
