SHIRE councillors have abolished the council committee that deals with major planning matters on the Mornington Peninsula. The Development Assessments…
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Mornington Peninsula Shire community council meeting, Rosebud Memorial Hall, 25 May 2015. No personal account can be given of the…
IN ROSEBUD, “a dark and stormy night” was threatening. This, the much-derided first sentence of the 1830 novel Paul Clifford…
Monday 27 April. Venue: Main Ridge Community Hall. A good crowd. The usual healthy pre-meeting buffet was provided. Council Watch…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire’s contentious Municipal Charge, now $180 per domestic rate notice, is to be reviewed, shire CEO Carl Cowie…
Monday 23 March. Venue: Mt Martha Life Saving Club. Briefings at 5pm, meal at 6, council meeting at 7. Salmon…
Community meeting, Monday, 23 February. Venue: Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club. An outstanding chocolate cake was served (with real cream)…
REMOVAL of the carbon tax should curb any rate rise next year, according figures drawn from the Victorian Auditor-General’s report…
Council meeting at Besgrove St, Rosebud, 12 August, 7pm. Small gallery crowd; tea, coffee and biscuits provided. THERE were a…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire is under pressure to cut its rates as the state government promises to force councils to justify…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire spent more than $6 million on consultants in the 2013-14 financial year. The figure has been provided…
NEXT year could be the most lively and productive year Mornington Peninsula Shire has had in a long time. A…
Mornington municipal office. A full agenda. Notably, the first council meeting attended by the shire’s new chief executive officer, Mr…
Mt Eliza Community Hall, Monday 24 November. The usual fine nourishment followed by some feisty debate in a meeting that…
THE Graham Pittock conflict of interest case, now concluded, has pulled the focus squarely on to the deep dysfunction afflicting…
Council meeting Monday 25 August, Rye Civic Hall. Presentation on Point Nepean development proposal, a fine dinner, council meeting highlighted…
Newly elected Red Hill ward councillor Tim Wood may not be able to begin his duties until 8 September, despite…
Shire CEO Michael Kennedy will apply to get his job back after councillors decided Monday last week in a shock…
MORE than half of the 17 candidates in the keenly contested Red Hill ward byelection have been denied the chance…
RED Hill ward voters will have a shire record 17 candidates to choose from when they cast their ballots for…
AS GAMBLES go, building the Southern Peninsula Aquatic Centre ranks with the punt of the Iowa farmer who, hearing a…
VOTERS participating in the August poll for a new Red Hill ward councillor are being urged to “look for character…
A BY-ELECTION will be held Saturday 23 August to fill the vacancy on Mornington Peninsula Shire Council created by the…
AN EXTRAORDINARY thing happened at last Monday’s Development Assessments Committee meeting. Apart from approving the proposed Arthurs Seat Skylift proposal,…
Venue: Hastings Hub. Briefings as the entrée, followed by a meal, then the council meeting. A good crowd, that dwindled…