When healthy additives aren’t enough
PARENTS who think “healthy” foods are better for their children’s health and behaviour should learn more about food labels, warns additive campaigner and researcher Sue Dengate. Ms Dengate is speakin...
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New role for cottage
SAGES Cottage Farm, Baxter, has been bought by not-for-profit service Wallara Australia to expand its training services for adults with different abilities. The not-for-profit organisation had been l...
Repeat offenders ‘shadowed’ by police
FRANKSTON police are working around the clock to keep residents safe by blitzing crime hotspots, arresting repeat offenders and responding to incidents in public spaces and on train-lines. Sergeant P...
Advance care planning
A COMMUNITY forum on advance care planning will be held 2-3.30pm, Tuesday 23 August, at Rosebud Over 55s Club, 121 Ninth Av, Rosebud. It is being run by PACE – Peninsula Advisory Committee for ...
Heritage takes a back seat to ‘development’
By Wayne Chamley NEWSPAPERS’ reporting of matters such as business and property sales can sometimes overlook other important consequences of such developments. A case in point is the expected sale of...
Tide changes for surf industry
TWO of the biggest names in the surf industry have quietly moved onto the Mornington Peninsula. Rip Curl came first, buying out Peninsula Surf and next month Billabong takes over the Trigger Brothers...
Groups hope planning tide turns at Sorrento
COMMUNITY groups are ready to be consulted on landscaping plans for the area around the new Sorrento seawall. The Department of Environment Land Water and Planning-funded stepped seawall is currently...
Eyes have it at hospital
THE Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital has unveiled revolutionary new technology at Frankston Hospital to connect patients who present at an emergency department with eye injuries or conditions in ...
Bulldogs reap rewards of work, play
MORNINGTON Football and Netball Club players enjoyed a half day’s “experience” with the Saints last week as winners of the FOX Footy Club Rewards program. Eight Bulldogs players, who sit third on the...
School’s year 10s move to Mornington
PADUA College’s year 10 students from Tyabb and Rosebud will be based at the school’s Mornington campus from 2019. The move comes amid a series of curriculum changes outlined in the school’s educatio...
