RESIDENTS fighting a proposed major development of an adventure park in Boneo have been left seething after the state’s planning minister intervened before a planned tribunal appeal. The proposal involves…
FIVE exceptional individuals have been honoured for their outstanding contributions to the community in the Mornington Peninsula Shire’s annual Australia Day local awards.This year’s Citizen of the Year went to…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has launched legal action against the Peninsula Hot Springs following allegations it was using an overflow carpark that was shut down in December. The spa and wellness…
A SOMERVILLE businessman has failed in his bid to have a rehearing granted after a personal safety intervention order was made against him last year (Publisher ‘harassed’ and ‘intimidated’ woman…
MOVES are being made to protect one of Somerville’s few remaining historic treasures, Seaton Carew House, from development.Hastings MP Paul Mercurio has been urged to join the community push to…
By Captain Diana Jennings FROM the Mornington Peninsula to the shores of Gallipoli, Able Seaman Musician Laura Campbell, right, will represent the ADF at the 2024 Anzac Day dawn service…
HASTINGS not-for-profit Kindred Clubhouse has launched a new project to increase mental health awareness and care in the community, while raising money for peer support and homelessness.Kindred Clubhouse offers a…
Soccer GUS Macleod has returned to senior coaching ranks in spectacular fashion after Chelsea’s stunning 8-0 thrashing of Brighton on Friday night. Edithvale Recreation Reserve was abuzz with high expectations…
PROVINCIAL PINES and Red Hill have booked their spots in the 2024 MPCA Provincial Grand Final.Pines took on Sorrento in a two-day semi-final across last Saturday and Sunday. They had…
SOCCER PROMOTION, relegation, consolidation – what does the State League season hold for your club?Frankston Pines and Chelsea get the opening round underway with home games this Friday night and…
PROVINCIAL RED Hill picked up a thrilling win over Langwarrin to finish their home-and-away season on a high last Saturday. Langwarrin batted first on their home deck. They had to…
ARTIST Vicki Sullivan did not have to search too long to find inspiration for the portrait that won her a top award from the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and…
DEVILBEND Fun Run and Walk will be held at Devilbend Natural Features Reserve, Sunday 7 November, after being cancelled in 2020 and postponed in August. COVID-safety protocols will be followed…
KATE Briscoe’s art exhibition Geologica – Rockfaces opens at & Gallery in Sorrento, 5-22 November. “We have kept the exhibition by Kate [over lockdown] so visitors can see all the…
A REIMAGINED 2021 Seniors Festival will be staged next month. Mornington Peninsula Shire, community, businesses and organisations have put together a COVIDSafe calendar of events complementing a host of online…
Federal Election
IT is not hard to find a connection to surfing on the Mornington Peninsula with Australian surfing great Bernard “Midget” Farrelly, who died on Sunday 7 August after several years…
IN July, 2008 the The News printed a short obituary on Des Duguid who had passed away at the age of 76. Des was a courteous, quietly spoked gentleman who resided for…
OBITUARY Kenneth Jack Spunner, 24 August 1927–18 June 2016, rabbit trapper, registered hairdresser, wool valuer, dairyman, wool grower, market gardener, shire councillor, real estate agent, land developer KEN Spunner, the…
PETER Munro feels he’s near the end of a campaign to have the names of two Sorrento boys killed in WWI placed on the Fromelles Commemorative Wall along with their…
