Category Archives: News

Census shows benefit of early learning skills

August 8, 2017
TO BORROW from book terminology, there will be a lot of “lively reads” in High St, Hastings at the end of the month. As part of the town’s second annual book day traders will dress as book characters...

Wire cage a source of aid for asylum seekers

August 7, 2017
By Barry Morris A WIRE cage outside the Mt Martha supermarket has for the past 15 years been a focal point of community concern for asylum seekers. Every day, shoppers buy and place food staples in t...

First ‘tech fest’

August 7, 2017
THE Mornington Peninsula and Frankston’s first entrepreneurship and technology festival starts on Friday with a business breakfast and a three-day “hackathon”. The event is a joint venture between th...

Shire, VicRoads agree on car park deal

August 7, 2017
A SCHOOL car park in Mt Eliza will be redeveloped after Mornington Peninsula Shire and VicRoads reached agreement last week. Under the agreement, VicRoads has agreed to reduce rental for the site pai...

Family conflict major cause of youth depression

August 7, 2017
THE number of young people committing suicide in Frankston and on the peninsula is causing alarm. The state government has announced funding for the South Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network to ...

On a fast track to better health care

August 7, 2017
By Jessica Mills* FROM running ironman triathlons to running the radiology department at Rosebud Hospital – Damien Barbour is a man on a mission to help improve health outcomes for people on the sout...

Cafes robbed

August 7, 2017
BURGLARS used a brick to smash the front door of the McCrae cafe Merchant and Maker last week. Cash was stolen in the robbery, early morning Monday 31 July. It was the second break-in at the cafe in ...

Smoking banned

August 7, 2017
A BAN on smoking in all commercial outdoor dining areas in Victoria came into effect last Tuesday, 1 August. The ban covers all restaurants, cafes, takeaway shops and licensed premises, including bee...

Art inspiration from flesh-eating ulcer

August 7, 2017
ARTIST Vicki Sullivan’s entry in this year’s prestigious Doug Moran National Portrait Prize is Professor Daniel O’Brien. It’s not a familiar name to most people but his work on the Bairnsdale ulcer i...

Stolen car scatters children

August 4, 2017
  MORNINGTON police were involved in a dramatic incident on Friday when a stolen car was driven up the wrong side of Bungower Rd – and even up onto the footpath on the wrong side of the road – d...