Emergency services are continuing to search for a man missing in the waters off Mornington Pier. By midday, the man had been missing in the frigid waters for over 12…
FAMILIES and visitors can now enjoy a brand-new playground and recreation area at the Capel Sound foreshore just in time for the warmer months. The $1m upgraded space features a…
Police are currently searching for a man in water near Mornington Pier. It is understood a small boat, with two people onboard, overturned around 1km from the shore. Emergency services…
The extensions to Holy Trinity Church in Hastings have officially opened.Since 1993, the Old Church had been used as an Op Shop, but was destroyed by arson in 2017.In its…
A FRANKSTON-raised pilot has lived out a childhood dream by leading a Royal Australian Air Force, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, and United States Air Force mission of F-35A Lightning II…
Police will prepare reports for the coroner following the death of two men in Frankston yesterday. Emergency services were called to Frankston Beach following reports of two men in trouble…
A DEDICATED team of Peninsula Health doctors and nurses have returned from a journey to Papua New Guinea as part an eight-day medical expedition led by the ‘No Roads Expeditions…
IT is with deep gratitude, and a sense of sadness, that we say goodbye to our friend and colleague, Keith Platt, who is retiring this week.Life can feel like a…
ROSEBUD has been named as one of Australia’s top ten places to retire.Financial technical company Citro says research into retirement destinations showed Rosebud came sixth out of 30 based on…
Soccer THE focus of the local game switches to Lawton Park this Saturday and the 12th official staging of the annual Steve Wallace Memorial Day. The event commemorates the life…
MOUNT Eliza Fire Brigade swapped sirens for sleigh bells over Christmas, teaming up with Santa to deliver the iconic Australian Open trophies to the Mt Eliza tennis club. The visit…
SOCCER PENINSULA Strikers have signed attacking midfielder Kyle Eichenberger from Langwarrin.The 20-year captained Langwarrin’s under-23s last season, won the Golden Boot award and was runner-up in the Player’s Player Of…
PROVINCIALOLD Peninsula faced a hefty total on Saturday after Baden Powell notched up a tidy 221 last week. But apart from a single early wicket, with Zak Bauer getting caught…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Regional Gallery exhibition ‘Surreal Landscapes’ explores the natural world through historic and political narrative. Curated by Danny Lacy and Rosie Weiss, the show includes newly commissioned work alongside…
HAILED as the international ‘Queen of 70’s Pop’ Helen Reddy was Australia’s very first truly international superstar. In 1973, her iconic song I Am Woman became the unforgettable anthem…
ICONIC mainstay festival Sunset Sounds is thrilled to get Victoria in on the action, set to delight music lovers at Hastings Foreshore Reserve on November 28. This epic Sunday session…
MARGARET Fulton – ‘the first lady of Australian food’ was born in Scotland in 1924, moving to Glen Innes, NSW with her family when she was just three years old.…
HASTINGS Football Club recently established their Hall of Fame with the induction of ten men who have been star players and administrators over the past 100 years. Some of these…
LONG before the extensive and frightening casualty lists monopolized the Melbourne papers in the years 1914 – 1918, there were occasional casualties which occurred in a training context. The town…
LATE in 2014 Keith Stevens, DFM, a long-time resident of the Village Glen at Rosebud, was informed that the President of the Republic of France had awarded him the highest…
MONTAGUE Romeo was born in Hastings to Charles and Katherine (nee Howard) Romeo in 1894. He first enlisted in Hastings on 11th September, 1914 but was discharged on 5th October,…
