Esso smokes to cut gas impacts
BLACK smoke belching from oil-company Esso’s Long Island smoke stacks was part of “scheduled maintenance works on the main process units”, a company spokesman said last week. Communications advisor T...
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Flyers scale down for festival display
ALL eyes will be skyward when radio controlled model aircraft take to the air Friday 24 and Saturday 25 February along the Hastings Foreshore Reserve. The Super Heroes – 17 Air Show being put on by W...
Retired but still going strong
EARLY childhood teacher Lyn Knight has retired after 22 years at St Marks Uniting Church in Mornington – a playgroup that she started. During that time she was said to have influenced hundreds of chi...
Piper survives to play again
A SHOREHAM dog has survived a bite from a deadly tick species that was thought not to exist on the Mornington Peninsula. The bite from the Australian paralysis tick (Ixodes holocyclus) – which freque...
College doubling up
THERE’LL be a lot of familiar faces at Dromana Secondary College this term. Among the 325 students in its 13 Year 7 classes are 11 sets of twins. Fresh from primary school the twins had their first d...
Battle of the bulge on way back to the top
A RYE boxer who had success as an amateur in the middleweight ranks and then let his weight balloon to 130kg before returning to the ring as a professional and rising to be among the top 20 fighters ...
Fencing off the Pillars
TOURIST hotspot the Pillars at Mt Martha will be fenced off for two years in a bid to stop further deterioration of the registered Aboriginal heritage site and appease residents appalled by young thr...
Libs’ crime forum to send message to Andrews
A SHORTAGE of police on the Mornington Peninsula and “surging crime rates” are issues to be discussed at a public meeting in Rosebud next month. The Law and Order forum being hosted by Nepean MP Mart...
Paramedic claims roster ‘blend’ cuts service
A PARAMEDIC fears changes to the roster will leave Rosebud residents without a vital ambulance service during busy nightshifts. The man, who asked not to be named but whose identity is known to The N...
Classified church marks a milestone
A RYE church will celebrate its 150th birthday with a special service, 10.30am, Sunday 5 February. St Andrew’s Anglican Church, in Lyons St, is classified by the National Trust. The church, originall...
