• Taking aim: Camp Manyung’s Jim Boyle watches as Margaret and Kevin Begley experience try their hands at archery in the YMCA’s new seniors program. Picture: Yanni

    Health awaits outdoor seniors

    CAMP Manyung, Mt Eliza, is running programs to encourage seniors to get active in the outdoors. The YMCA camp’s outdoor adventure program includes sea...

  • Picture: Gary Sissons

    Shire’s backing lifts hopes of saving pier

    SAVE the Dromana Pier campaigners are buoyed by Mornington Peninsula Shire’s support for their cause, even though any decision on its future ultimatel...

  • Fast fun: Hamish Hardeman has loved the thrill of the track since he was a child.

    This chippy’s in the fast lane

    ROSEBUD carpenter Hamish Hardeman is well on his way to taking on the world in the increasingly popular sport of GT3 car racing. The quietly-spoken 23...

  • That’s my boy: Bill Griffiths is a proud dad after son Sam’s Olympics’ success. Picture: Yanni

    Medal win at the big event

    PEARCEDALE man Bill Griffiths has been smiling ever since his son Sam’s equestrian success at the Rio Olympics. The international rider and member of ...

  • Peaceful meeting: The Premier Daniel Andrews is greeted by Imam Wadood Janud, right, on his arrival at a peace symposium at the Bait-ul-Salam mosque in Langwarrin. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Australia national president Imam Inam-ul-Haq Kauser is in the centre. Top left, children of mosque members singing the national anthem. Pictures: Gary Sissons

    Premier joins mosque’s peace movement

    THE Premier Daniel Andrews was among four politicians and more than 400 guests at the annual peace symposium at the Ahmadiyya Muslim community Austral...

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Deadly climb: This brushtail possum, below, tries to support itself with its right paw while the other is held fast in a steel-jawed trap set on a trellis of an unocuppied holiday house at Rye. No one knows how long the possum was in agony before being freed by wildlife carer Brenda Marmion, above. The possum was unable to be saved and was put down by a vet. The RSPCA is investigating the illegal trapping of the possum. Main picture: Jarryd Bravo
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Cruel end for trapped possum

THE RSPCA is investigating a “horrific” case of cruelty in Rye after a young brushtail possum was ca...

Cannonball run at beach

HEAVEN knows how a cannonball lay undetected on Shire Hall beach for the past 120 years – until Peter and Fairlie Pirouc stum...

STATUTORY proceedings are now being used to resolve Mornington Peninsula Shire’s embarrassing position of wanting to build an... Force used to free up skatepark site