MP calls for extra bus for peninsula
MORNINGTON MP David Morris has called on Public Transport Minister Melissa Horne to add an extra bus service from Frankston to the Mornington Peninsula. “There is an urgent need for an additional bus...
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No one at helm to control boat ramp
With Keith Platt UPKEEP and management of the Mornington Peninsula’s public boat ramps is still a grey area – despite it being six months since the state government announced that it was taking over ...
Mayors call for climate action
JUST days out from Saturday’s election, mayors from municipalities throughout Australia have demanded that the next federal government takes swift action to tackle climate change. The 15 mayors – inc...
Farmers, councils seek puzzle’s ‘missing piece’
A BAXTER farmer says he could “double [our] workforce to 50 and triple or quadruple production” if his property had access to a reliable supply of recycled water. Wayne Shields and partner Tash, from...
Western Port’s women of the waves
WOMEN have found their calling at the Australian Volunteer Coast Guard’s Western Port Flotilla, based in Hastings, which has a higher percentage of females than most. Of the 48 members, 29 per cent a...
Retail group’s thumbs down to Kaufland
AFTER accepting what it terms a “peer review” a national retailers’ organisation has slammed the proposed Kaufland bid for Mornington as “confirming the worst fears of local small and family business...
‘Conti’ work stalls as developers chase cash
WORK has stopped on the controversial $80 million redevelopment of the Continental Hotel at Sorrento while the developers chase finance. Joint-venture partner Julian Gerner said last week a “gap betw...
Sympathy and concern for homeless woman
THE plight of a homeless woman living alone in a Mornington Peninsula foreshore toilet block has evoked sympathy from nearby residents as well as a little hostility. The middle-aged woman, of A...
Bus services get an F (for fail)
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has run into the equivalent of a brick wall in its efforts to improve bus services on the peninsula. Despite seven months of lobbying the state government and working close...
Restaurant to fight on over wastewater
A RED Hill restaurateur is reconciled to spending as much as $200,000 fighting a Mornington Peninsula Shire Council knock-back of an application for a permit to alter a septic tank system. Red Gum BB...
